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Over the course of the past few months I have been working on compiling a list of my 500 favorite songs. It was sort of challenge that I gave myself and I'm super pumped with how it turned out. There were a few rules (only 5 songs per artist being the big rule, among a few others), and here's the list I came up with. Thought it was fun, so wanted to share here and see if it might spark any discussion about song placement, lack of songs/artists, or see if anyone had any similar lists. All thoughts are welcome! (and if you don't care to comb through all 500 songs for your favorite song or artist I'm more than happy to help you track 'em down)

1. Trash Panda - Aging out of the 20th Century
   
2. Djo - Roddy
   
3. The Beatles - Don't Let Me Down
   
4. Snail Mail - Heat Wave
   
5. Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex
   
6. Joji - SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK
   
7. The Shins - The Fear
   
8. Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
   
9. The Cranberries - Linger
   
10. Post Animal - Ralphie
    
11. Hop Along - Not Abel
    
12. The Beach Boys - Heroes And Villains
    
13. Electric Light Orchestra - Livin' Thing
    
14. The Monkees - As We Go Along
    
15. Blondie - Heart Of Glass
    
16. The Strokes - Oblivius
    
17. Chet Baker - It's Always You
    
18. The Beatles - Rain
    
19. Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line
    
20. Husbands - Must Be a Cop
    
21. Faces - Ooh La La
    
22. The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
    
23. Frank Ocean - Nights
    
24. Harry James - It's Been a Long, Long Time
    
25. The Turtles - Happy Together
    
26. Etta James - At Last
    
27. The Zombies - The Way I Feel Inside
    
28. The Beatles - Here, There And Everywhere
    
29. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
    
30. Kanye West - Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1
    
31. Briston Maroney - Sinkin'
    
32. John Lennon - Oh My Love
    
33. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Ladyfingers
    
34. Squirrel Flower - Headlights
    
35. The Backseat Lovers - Maple Syrup
    
36. The B-52's - Rock Lobster
    
37. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
    
38. Snail Mail - Ben Franklin
    
39. Laura Elliott - Grass Stains
    
40. Djo - Chateau (Feel Alright)
    
41. Tame Impala - Eventually
    
42. The Backseat Lovers - Snowbank Blues
    
43. Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune
    
44. The Weeknd - Save Your Tears
    
45. Talking Heads - Thank You for Sending Me an Angel
    
46. The Zombies - Time of the Season
    
47. The War On Drugs - Nothing to Find
    
48. Queen - Brighton Rock
    
49. The Dream Academy - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
    
50. The B-52's - Strobe Light
    
51. The Cranberries - Dreams
    
52. Fugees - Killing Me Softly With His Song
    
53. Molchat Doma - Тоска
    
54. Tyler, The Creator - ARE WE STILL FRIENDS?
    
55. The Mamas & The Papas - Dream A Little Dream Of Me
    
56. The Chords - Sh-Boom
    
57. The Beatles - The Abbey Road Medley
    
58. The Ronettes - Be My Baby
    
59. The Who - Baba O'Riley
    
60. Dr. Dog - Where'd All the Time Go?
    
61. M83 - My Tears Are Becoming A Sea
    
62. Billie Eilish - everything i wanted
    
63. Outkast - Hey Ya!
    
64. Nat King Cole - Orange Colored Sky
    
65. The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize
    
66. Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There
    
67. Foreign Air - Shut Up and Show Me
    
68. Leonard Cohen - So Long, Marianne
    
69. dodie - If I'm Being Honest
    
70. Briston Maroney - June
    
71. Post Malone - Sunflower
    
72. John Lennon - Isolation
    
73. Buddy Holly & The Crickets - Not Fade Away
    
74. Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End
    
75. Kanye West - All Falls Down
    
76. Alvvays - Adult Diversion
    
77. John Lennon - Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
    
78. Clairo - Amoeba
    
79. The Beach Boys - I Know There's An Answer
    
80. Paul McCartney - Let Me Roll It
    
81. Frank Ocean - Ivy
    
82. Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack
    
83. Djo - Mutual Future (Repeat)
    
84. Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street
    
85. Childish Gambino - Me and Your Mama
    
86. Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine
    
87. The Pied Pipers - Dream
    
88. The Beach Boys - All I Wanna Do
    
89. Djo - Change
    
90. Второй этаж поражает - Крайности
    
91. Little Richard - Lucille
    
92. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Shanghai
    
93. Chet Baker - Deep In A Dream
    
94. The Beatles - It's All Too Much
    
95. Post Animal - Dirtpicker
    
96. The B-52's - Love Shack
    
97. EDEN - foreve/over
    
98. Kanye West - Ultralight Beam
    
99. The Zombies - Going Out Of My Head
    
100. Talking Heads - Found a Job
     
101. Snail Mail - Pristine
     
102. Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
     
103. Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
     
104. WILLIS - I Think I Like When It Rains
     
105. Chet Baker - But Not For Me
     
106. Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me
     
107. Tyler, The Creator - GONE, GONE / THANK YOU
     
108. Djo - Half Life
     
109. Trash Panda - Check Please
     
110. Briston Maroney - Deep Sea Diver
     
111. Beach Fossils - This Year
     
112. Momma - Medicine
     
113. Hop Along - Prior Things
     
114. Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere
     
115. Electric Light Orchestra - Turn to Stone
     
116. Briston Maroney - It's Not My Fault
     
117. Tyler, The Creator - NEW MAGIC WAND
     
118. Snail Mail - Headlock
     
119. Phil Collins - Take Me Home
     
120. Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
     
121. The Beach Boys - Do It Again
     
122. Tame Impala - Breathe Deeper
     
123. Ella Fitzgerald - Misty
     
124. Phoebe Bridgers - Waiting Room
     
125. Kanye West - Runaway
     
126. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)
     
127. Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
     
128. Kendrick Lamar - Alright
     
129. Black Country, New Road - Concorde
     
130. George Harrison - If Not for You
     
131. Harry Styles - Cherry
     
132. Ms. Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
     
133. Paul McCartney - Junk
     
134. Wings - Maybe I'm Amazed [Live]
     
135. Talking Heads - Houses in Motion
     
136. Del Water Gap - Ode to a Conversation Stuck in Your Throat
     
137. Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
     
138. Queen - Seven Seas Of Rhye
     
139. Paul McCartney - Jet
     
140. Sufjan Stevens - Death with Dignity
     
141. A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
     
142. Tame Impala - Let It Happen
     
143. Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
     
144. Clairo - Management
     
145. Tommy James & The Shondells - I Think We're Alone Now
     
146. Fergie - Clumsy
     
147. Childish Gambino - This Is America
     
148. Prefab Sprout - The King of Rock 'N' Roll
     
149. Joy Again - Looking Out for You
     
150. Beach House - Space Song
     
151. John Lennon - Mind Games
     
152. The Weeknd - Gasoline
     
153. Weezer - Buddy Holly
     
154. Phoebe Bridgers - Sidelines
     
155. Tame Impala - New Person, Same Old Mistakes
     
156. Lana Del Rey - A&W
     
157. The Dillards - I've Just Seen a Face
     
158. The Doors - Break on Through (To the Other Side)
     
159. Julie London - I'm Glad There Is You
     
160. 2Pac - California Love
     
161. Dean Martin - Everybody Loves Somebody
     
162. Snail Mail - Anytime
     
163. The Strokes - The Adults Are Talking
     
164. Jordana, TV Girl - Better in the Dark
     
165. Juice WRLD - Hide (feat. Seezyn)
     
166. The Wild Reeds - Get Better
     
167. Finom - Mine
     
168. Hop Along - One That Suits Me
     
169. The Killers - Mr. Brightside
     
170. Michael Cera - Clay Pigeons
     
171. Clairo - Bags
     
172. Prince - Let's Go Crazy
     
173. The Zombies - She's Not There
     
174. Blackstreet - No Diggity
     
175. Frank Sinatra - I've Got You Under My Skin
     
176. John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads
     
177. Harry James - I'm Beginning to See The Light
     
178. The Clash - London Calling
     
179. Charles Bradley - Changes
     
180. Buddy Holly - (Ummmm, Oh Yeah) Dearest
     
181. Eagles - Seven Bridges Road [Live]
     
182. Moxie - Honey
     
183. Faces - Stay with Me
     
184. Post Animal - How Do You Feel
     
185. New Order - Age of Consent
     
186. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
     
187. Lana Del Rey - Doin' Time
     
188. Twin Peaks - Blue Coupe
     
189. Kanye West - Gold Digger
     
190. Fruit Bats - The Bottom of It
     
191. Frank Sinatra - Somethin' Stupid
     
192. Lorde - Perfect Places
     
193. Martha Tilton - Exactly Like You
     
194. King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
     
195. Glen Campbell - Southern Nights
     
196. Claire Rosinkranz - Frankenstein
     
197. Guillemots - Made-Up Lovesong #43
     
198. Fleetwood Mac - Say You Love Me
     
199. Frankie Valli - Can't Take My Eyes off You
     
200. The Crickets - Don't Ever Change
     
201. Paul Anka - Put Your Head On My Shoulder
     
202. George Harrison - Isn't It a Pity
     
203. Trash Panda - Off
     
204. Super Besse - Holod
     
205. Beyoncé - Hold Up
     
206. Charlie Burg - I Don't Wanna Be Okay Without You
     
207. Eagles - Peaceful Easy Feeling
     
208. Ella Fitzgerald - It's A Lovely Day Today
     
209. PERMSKY KRAY - Дорогой Человек
     
210. The Little Dippers - Forever
     
211. The B-52's - There's a Moon in the Sky (Called the Moon)
     
212. Patti Page - Old Cape Cod
     
213. Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
     
214. The Soggy Bottom Boys - I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow
     
215. Trash Panda - Things Will Never Change
     
216. Hop Along - Well-dressed
     
217. Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me
     
218. TV Girl - Daughter of a Cop
     
219. LAUNDRY DAY - Jane
     
220. Tyler, The Creator - EARFQUAKE
     
221. Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
     
222. Joji - Gimme Love
     
223. The Backseat Lovers - Pool House
     
224. The Weeknd - Take My Breath
     
225. Mild High Club - Homage
     
226. Doc Watson - Am I Born to Die?
     
227. Daniel Caesar - Streetcar
     
228. The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
     
229. John Lennon - #9 Dream
     
230. Tame Impala - Elephant
     
231. Chuck Berry - You Never Can Tell
     
232. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
     
233. KIDS SEE GHOSTS - 4th Dimension
     
234. Soft Cell - Tainted Love
     
235. The B-52's - Song for a Future Generation
     
236. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
     
237. Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans
     
238. Billie Eilish - Halley's Comet
     
239. Glenn Miller - In the Mood
     
240. Kid Bloom - Control
     
241. The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build A Home
     
242. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
     
243. Brenda Lee - If You Love Me (Really Love Me)
     
244. TV Girl - Lovers Rock
     
245. Art Lown - Knew You Well
     
246. Dean Martin - Ain't That A Kick In The Head
     
247. Miniature Tigers - Like or Like Like
     
248. Electric Light Orchestra - Sweet Talkin' Woman
     
249. The Hunts - Ages
     
250. The Cars - Good Times Roll
     
251. Bill Withers - Lovely Day
     
252. Drake - God's Plan
     
253. Kansas - Point of Know Return
     
254. The Neighbourhood - Stargazing
     
255. The Clash - Rock the Casbah
     
256. Hop Along - What the Writer Meant
     
257. Briston Maroney - Under My Skin
     
258. Jack Stauber - Buttercup
     
259. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Ya Love
     
260. Ginger Root - Loretta
     
261. Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
     
262. Frank Ocean - Pyramids
     
263. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
     
264. Destroy Boys - I Threw Glass at My Friend's Eyes and Now I'm on Probation
     
265. Mild High Club - Dionysian State
     
266. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
     
267. Kevin Abstract - Empty
     
268. The Frights - Crust Bucket
     
269. Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You
     
270. The Shins - Fighting in a Sack
     
271. fun. - We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monáe)
     
272. Lil Uzi Vert - Money Longer
     
273. Miniature Tigers - Cannibal Queen
     
274. The Doors - Touch Me
     
275. Jean Dawson - Clear Bones
     
276. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Catching Smoke
     
277. Molchat Doma - Люди Надоели
     
278. The Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed
     
279. Billie Eilish - ocean eyes
     
280. BOYO - Crown
     
281. The 1975 - Somebody Else
     
282. Husbands - She's a Betty
     
283. Syd Barrett - If It's In You
     
284. Trash Panda - Atlanta Girls
     
285. Frank Ocean - Godspeed
     
286. Alice Phoebe Lou - Glow
     
287. Childish Gambino - Redbone
     
288. New Order - Blue Monday
     
289. Post Animal - Schedule
     
290. Harry Styles - Fine Line
     
291. Harry James - I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)
     
292. Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again
     
293. Chet Baker - I Fall In Love Too Easily
     
294. The Cranberries - Put Me Down
     
295. John Mayer - Edge of Desire
     
296. George Harrison - All Those Years Ago
     
297. Electric Light Orchestra - The Diary of Horace Wimp
     
298. Alex Clare - Too Close
     
299. Eric B. & Rakim - Know The Ledge
     
300. Peter Frampton - Show Me The Way [Live]
     
301. Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson
     
302. Black Eyes - Deformative
     
303. The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
     
304. Bonny Light Horseman - Deep In Love
     
305. The Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
     
306. Cage The Elephant - Cigarette Daydreams
     
307. Hot Flash Heat Wave - Raindrop
     
308. Clairo - Sofia
     
309. Kendrick Lamar - PRIDE.
     
310. Camille Saint-Saëns - The Swan
     
311. Weezer - Say It Ain't So
     
312. C418 - Sweden
     
313. Lana Del Rey - Let The Light In (feat. Father John Misty)
     
314. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
     
315. Pickin' On Series - Those to Come
     
316. Lana Del Rey - Grandfather please stand on the shoulders of my father while he's deep-sea fishing (feat. RIOPY)
     
317. John Mayer - Moving On and Getting Over
     
318. Field Medic - POWERFUL LOVE
     
319. Cage The Elephant - Flow
     
320. Joji - Run
     
321. The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
     
322. Boston - Peace of Mind
     
323. Ben E. King - This Magic Moment
     
324. David Bowie - Starman
     
325. Beastie Boys - Sabotage
     
326. Harry Belafonte - Banana Boat (Day-O)
     
327. Gene Krupa & His Orchestra - Rhumboogie
     
328. The Cardigans - Lovefool
     
329. The Kinks - You Really Got Me
     
330. The Zombies - She's Coming Home
     
331. Michael Jackson - Thriller
     
332. Moxie - Blue Skies
     
333. The Mamas & The Papas - Straight Shooter
     
334. Peter, Paul and Mary - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
     
335. Green Day - Brain Stew
     
336. Dua Lipa - Levitating (feat. DaBaby)
     
337. The Police - Roxanne
     
338. Britney Spears - Toxic
     
339. Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels
     
340. Rex Orange County - Pluto Projector
     
341. The Strokes - Call It Fate, Call It Karma
     
342. Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still
     
343. The Black Crowes - Twice As Hard
     
344. Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
     
345. fun. - Some Nights
     
346. Wings - Silly Love Songs
     
347. Paramore - Still into You
     
348. Peter Frampton - Baby, I Love Your Way [Live]
     
349. The Monkees - Last Train to Clarksville
     
350. Royel Otis - Oysters In My Pocket
     
351. The Backseat Lovers - Growing/Dying
     
352. Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
     
353. Post Animal - Goggles
     
354. Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No. 1
     
355. Childish Gambino - IV. Sweatpants
     
356. Steely Dan - Dirty Work
     
357. ABBA - Lay All Your Love On Me
     
358. Still Woozy - Goodie Bag
     
359. Arlo Parks - Black Dog
     
360. Goth Babe - Weekend Friend
     
361. George & the Handsomes - Sleepy Beats
     
362. boygenius - 20
     
363. The Mills Brothers - You Always Hurt The One You Love
     
364. Travis Scott - SICKO MODE
     
365. Pinegrove - Need 2
     
366. The Backseat Lovers - Sinking Ship
     
367. Franz Schubert - Ave Maria
     
368. Zac Brown Band - Knee Deep (feat. Jimmy Buffett)
     
369. Justin Timberlake - Mirrors
     
370. Simon & Garfunkel - Cecilia
     
371. The Cranberries - Zombie
     
372. Daniel Caesar - Japanese Denim
     
373. Billie Holiday - Easy Living
     
374. ISLAND - By Your Side
     
375. Phil Collins - Tomorrow Never Knows
     
376. Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
     
377. The Four Freshmen - Day By Day
     
378. Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
     
379. Billy Joel - Big Shot
     
380. Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
     
381. Yot Club - down bad
     
382. Rihanna - Stay
     
383. Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
     
384. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake, Op. 20, Act 2: No. 10, Scene. Moderato
     
385. The White Stripes - Fell In Love With a Girl
     
386. Alvvays - Easy On Your Own?
     
387. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If We Were Vampires
     
388. Blackway - What's Up Danger (with Black Caviar)
     
389. Albert Hammond - It Never Rains in Southern California
     
390. Matt Maltese - Jupiter
     
391. John Denver - Mother Nature's Son
     
392. Childish Gambino - Sober
     
393. Claire Rosinkranz - Pools and Palm Trees
     
394. The Cars - Just What I Needed
     
395. The Doors - Light My Fire
     
396. Blondie - Tomorrow Never Knows
     
397. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Hell's Itch
     
398. The Japanese House - Saw You In A Dream
     
399. Franz Schubert - String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, Op. 29 No. 1, D. 804
     
400. The Drifters - White Christmas
     
401. The 1975 - Robbers
     
402. George Harrison - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
     
403. The Frights - Tongues
     
404. Paramore - Ain't It Fun
     
405. Billy Joel - Pressure
     
406. Frank Sinatra - My Way
     
407. Art Lown - Going Back to Carolina
     
408. Bruno Mars - Just the Way You Are
     
409. Under The Rug - Lonesome & Mad
     
410. The Mamas & The Papas - Dedicated To The One I Love
     
411. Foster The People - Sit Next to Me
     
412. Weezer - Undone - The Sweater Song
     
413. Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
     
414. Tia Blake - Plastic Jesus
     
415. Los Bravos - Bring a Little Lovin'
     
416. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
     
417. Minnie Riperton - Les Fleurs
     
418. Billy Idol - Dancing with Myself
     
419. Cody Fry - I Hear a Symphony
     
420. Gringo Sapiens - Driver's Licence
     
421. Vacations - Relax
     
422. Glitter Party - time waits
     
423. Steve Lacy - Bad Habit
     
424. The Crystals - Then He Kissed Me
     
425. The Pied Pipers - Mairzy Doats
     
426. Mitski - Bug Like an Angel
     
427. James Ray - I've Got My Mind Set On You
     
428. Clairo - Bubble Gum
     
429. Masayoshi Takanaka - SEXY DANCE
     
430. Nat King Cole - (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
     
431. Sleigh Bells - Crown On the Ground
     
432. Olivia Rodrigo - favorite crime
     
433. No Doubt - Just A Girl
     
434. Foreigner - Long, Long Way from Home
     
435. Heart - Crazy On You
     
436. The Hunts - Darlin'
     
437. David Bowie - Heroes
     
438. Alice Phoebe Lou - Hammer
     
439. Thee Oh Sees - Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster
     
440. Roar - I Can't Handle Change
     
441. TV Girl - Birds Dont Sing
     
442. Laufey - From The Start
     
443. Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group - Freight Train (feat. Nancy Whiskey)
     
444. Metro Boomin - Am I Dreaming
     
445. Liana Flores - rises the moon
     
446. POP ETC - Speak Up
     
447. Jean Knight - Mr. Big Stuff
     
448. The Platters - Twilight Time
     
449. Derek & The Dominos - Layla
     
450. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Homeless Man in Adidas
     
451. Charlie Burg - Lovesong (The Way)
     
452. Hot Flash Heat Wave - Gutter Girl
     
453. ABBA - Fernando
     
454. Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine
     
455. Savannah Conley - More Than Fine
     
456. Young the Giant - Mind Over Matter
     
457. Future Crib - Yer Movin'
     
458. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
     
459. benches - Violent
     
460. Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie
     
461. Olivia Rodrigo - vampire
     
462. Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone - City Of Stars
     
463. Maya Hawke - Thérèse
     
464. Current Joys - A Different Age
     
465. Wayne Newton - Danke Schoen
     
466. La Roux - Bulletproof
     
467. Jason Segel, Walter - Man Or Muppet
     
468. U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
     
469. The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes
     
470. The Ink Spots - Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
     
471. Ace of Base - The Sign
     
472. Vulfpeck - 1612
     
473. Nordista Freeze - Hey GiGi
     
474. The Chainsmokers - New York City
     
475. Suki Waterhouse - Johanna
     
476. Pete Rodriguez - I Like It Like That
     
477. Calvin Harris - Summer
     
478. The Rare Occasions - Notion
     
479. a-ha - Take on Me
     
480. Rush - Working Man
     
481. Traffic - Dear Mr. Fantasy
     
482. Starbuck - Moonlight Feels Right
     
483. Van Halen - Drop Dead Legs
     
484. The Troggs - Wild Thing
     
485. Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times
     
486. The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)
     
487. Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love
     
488. Justin Timberlake - SexyBack (feat. Timbaland)
     
489. David Bowie - Suffragette City
     
490. Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight"
     
491. Avicii - Wake Me Up
     
492. The Who - La-La-La-Lies
     
493. The Spinners - The Rubberband Man
     
494. MGMT - Time to Pretend
     
495. Hootie & The Blowfish - Only Wanna Be With You
     
496. Sheck Wes - Mo Bamba
     
497. Claire Rosinkranz - 123
     
498. Ringo Starr - Photograph
     
499. The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
     
500. Duran Duran - Rio
     

The Moral Transactions of the Great Salesman Rupert Clif Everton
With solemn reverence: throw away respect, Tradition, form and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me, I am a king?
I hope to be slightly as thriving as the vulgar. No, I have not aged like fine wineI presume you are a tourist? You walk in two worlds with the same strides. “You’re beautiful” was her reply “That hook has lost it’s worm” was mine. Yet I look at condos on Bethune street mindlessly. Nevertheless, shake my hand and hold a good thought, Our demeanor will cease to rot. I don’t care for southern architecture any more.A simple life is no longer one I can’t endure. I thought I missed you. I am a master perfumistWho can no longer smell the flowers. With an overwhelming force I scale the balconies of skyscraper towers. They’ll say “What an exquisite man he is with a beautifully scented chest.” In truth my hair is thinning, and time, time is winning. I shall not succumb. A cigarette after a meal is like a woman after war. A moment of what we were with the presence of bore, the intensity of the times tangled by the shore. I can no longer punish myself for lost time, I can no longer punish myself for a poor, unreasonable rhyme. I cannot even say what kind of crisis, For it is not until this part of me fully dies… STILL! I request an audience of our souls to greet. Immediately and without wallow.How I strip myself bare for the golden flakes of your lilac flair. The truest crown will always find the right head. My favorite flower will always stain the sheets of my bed. Today I took a six hour lunch to day dream of you with my belly full. What a Herculean task I bring upon myself. I guess it was easy to forget a ruptured mind. Yet moments later I would eat those $1 oysters with you, and yes they made me hurl, YET I would go as far as to lick your pear. I did so as I am a professional gentleman. I’ve heard the winds whisper that “here lyes a throne atop the refrigerator waiting a tilt”. Tonight I will forgive you,Tomorrow I will not fail to remember.There’s no excuse for going in the wrong direction,Unless you’re breathing carbon dioxide for pleasure.Unwillingly, you’re my treasure. The sidewalks are screaming with disdain. I thought I love you meant something else from you. I thought it meant the opposite. How can someone who loved so much, blush, I thought I was dreaming when I met you. How How How HOW can I prepare for blue. I am often crying during violin symphonies I mutter and I stutter;Where I would say ‘worn, torn and yet acceptably mended’. It’s a cold comfort, these flutter associations,Crept ceaselessly, and nulled necessity. Stretch the sky and summon my fixations.If only I can prescribe time as an anecdote to happiness. Imitating some earlier times in our lives. The beach wasn’t filled with damp sand,The chairs were there, the umbrellas too.A flower grow graciously in the sand. And indeed I may have lived on borrowed time.Because, until this part of me can die, I have no belief I will live, nor thrive. So I’ve heard that tragedy is the story of one learning too late. Yet I comfort the afflicted and afflict the comforted. More trope than substance, as I bear no compass. I heard whispers that the mind is domineering. I feel like the lobsters while the titanic sunk. Has that peach ever been within reach?No! Eat your apple, she replied. Said the snake to Eve, I deniedFor it is not until this part of me fully dies… I’ve walked Bond Street, I’ve swam in the drinks I’ve drank. There I was pontificating about modern arts,With no remorse of those female hearts. I grow cold. Tragedy is the story of learning far too late. I found myself indulged in lies of love, across a row of neatly organized, originally positioned, well place, silverware. I surely shall never see heavens gate. Can love ever truly wait? I am to blame for reeling out the bait. I have echos to awaken before my time is taken. The white residue commandeers the sparkled mirror And mocks the face in the reflection.‘I control you’. In a distance room, nothing and everything is shared.Save me! I have flared! This crucible moment which sent me off into this life that is peaking me into this life,Which boards about my fear of a turblanced flight. I’m just the loneliest person in the world.Faces made for my fantastic coldness,A defining moment of my dying boldness. A circle closes with a lock and key. I cannot find it. They ask, how does he write a poem. How does he fall in love? How operatic is it all. Cold winds of the dying Fall. We’ve reached the possibility of stalemate, And either of us want to face fate. How easily difficult it is to go on.How easily I find something new to leach on to. I think there’s no one else in the world but you. Dreams of mine revolve of my skin turning blue and of a dream I can but shouldn’t pursue. I am the black swan in the medieval times of Milan. I fall under the command of Xerxes and wake up in the bed surround of nurses. How can a doctor operate without anesthesia? What a sardonic fella that doctor was. Mentions that I seem beset by licentiousness and turpitude. I have amputated my spirit in the name of servitude. I failed to climb the mountains of Magnesia. Comparison is the one that pickpockets joy.I wish it were yesterday. I tell her, you’re in a lava set haze. More trope than substance,And I find myself in the edges of grey’s maze. How I shall I begin again? I am curtain I wept and begged. I am the gazelle in the lions den. Can’t help but continue jerky legged. I wish it were yesterday. This sadness of mine was alone. The twilight closed the book of mine. I am a component of the chilling wine. Those flying birds; I dream I am their clone. My personality is certainly benign. I do not love her now, but maybe I do. Jitters of gifted isolation consume my warmed bathwater. There can’t be one natural human state. My soul is amputated, the endless slaughter. I can no longer escape my fate. I do not think I will even see that gate. Where is my shining castle?
Maybe I drink too much.Maybe I fall on the brink. I feel my liver pulsating. My core is no longer updating.Your love is evading, not aiding. We have slept in the lies of the jaundiced persona. I cannot have a peace and love together. I have seen the Sphnix ruffle and give me a feather,I have see her be the storm I cannot weather. Untrammeled I break you. Unhinged scar your character. Is the universe circular? Do I get I back.. Does my world now go black? I am the gentle end of the heart, yet I am also the pursuant enemy of the heart. The changing whisper of changing times. Oh god, more needless rhymes. I question what and IF paradise can be without you, And how a share sunset is paradise. I have seen moment of hopelessness take control, Grab me by my throat and asphyxiate me. And in that prime, I relish the idea of sharing this time.

So we all know Bruce Wayan is one of the most intelligent super genius characters in the DC universe.
So let's talk about his intelligence first (then the tech invention)
Geoff Johns confirmed that Bruce Wayne is definitively the 2nd smartest person on Earth. This automatically makes him more intelligent than everyone on Earth save for Lex Luthor, with an IQ of over 250.
Has one of the greatest minds in the entire DC Omniverse - Justice League (2018) #23
So let's some common misunderstanding about batman IQ being just 192.
That was never attributed to Batman, only Ted Kord.
anyway Batman automatically for being the second (only behind Lex) IQ in the Earth out him above Ryan Choi who have IQ 200 and and Hiro Okamura who have IQ over 210.
So now we have Batman IQ over at 210+ and possibly 250.
Batman is an Omni-Disciplinary Scientist and martial arts(Master of every scientific field known to man i.e. Reed Richards, Victor von Doom, Lex Luthor), mastering “EVERY COURSE AND FIELD. EVERY SUBJECT AND TRADE.” and the worlds greatest detective and confirmed have all knowledge of science history.
He is the greatest strategist and tactician in the world.
Deduced what Brainiac 5 (most intelligent being in the 31st century Multiverse) missed.
Batman mastered every scientific discipline known to man, and beyond, of which there are between 600–800.
Figured out Zeta Beam (teleportation) technology in an instant that took the super-genius level Adam Strange years. 6th panel..
Batman is able to hack into a NASA satellite and transfer its information onto his servers.
He easily Easily hacked into Lexcorp and Darkseid's Hellspores.
Hacks Kryptonian computer in second and Hacks Apokolyptian computer.
Within seconds hacks an alien computer he doesn't even know the language of.
Hack even if someone discovered batman identity, he dosen't even worry about it, he just can manipulate someone fooling him on physiological thinking that he’s forced to put on the costume if he could fool that. Especially given how frequent mind-control is among Batman’s rogues.
He even once he’s exposed himself during a disinformation campaign.

Just one more crackpot conspiracy theory among a thousand others. More tabloid tittle tattle and craziness surrounding mad, bad Bruce Wayne. In a world where no one can be sure what’s real and what’s not.”
—Bruce Wayne

So firstly Batman is the one who build his technology by himself.
Just in the beginning, let me tell you Batman have created time travel Machine single handily and Program that Predicts the past, present and Future and every possibility.
Teleporter and Teleportation Via Watchtower he Designed
He created Haz-Bat a suit that Withstood the pull of a black hole.
Hack he created even his own element (feat like Tony Stark), Batman creates an element that has the same effects on Wraith that Kryptonite does to Superman(Yes, Superman says mineral, but Kryptonite is consistently classified as an element).
Built a device that can slow down time to the point that the Flash is barely moving or how he created Shrink Ray.
Batman tech.
1: Magnetism in Gloves for Adhesion.
2: Magnetizing Batarang (note: 3-D Collapsible Micro-Structure Material for Compact Storage).
3: Wallet-Sized Collapsible Suit.
4: Chemically Fueled Thrusters.
Proton Gun(A.K.A. Phaser, Disruptor, Particle Accelerator Gun, Ion Cannon, Proton Beam, Lightning Ray and Ray Gun)
5: Energy Pulse that Dismantles Mech.
6: Energy Cannon.
7: Gun Atomizes Concrete.
8: Ultraviolet Image Reproduction.
9: Microprocessor(7th Capsule). Clearly this is old and Batman has since upgraded.
10: Signal and Comms Jammer.
11: Voice & Sound Modulation/Duplication.
12: Finger Lasers.
13: Concussive Grenades.
ECM(Electronic Counter-Measures) Against Radar and Sonar
14: Radar and Acoustic Triangulation are useless.
15: Insider Suit Mimics [Flash’s Speedhttps://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-76e0dd71bda266c21b6c403f926744dc-lq).
16: Thermocouple for solar Energy Siphoning.
17: Energy Generated Constructs shields.
18: created Plasma Shield.
19: Decontamination of Irradiated Areas.
19: enchanted and night qmd Infrared and Thermal and X-Ray and heat vision and Ultraviolet Visions.
20: Life Detection.
21: Digital Invisibility.
22: Freeze Rays.
23: Echolocation.
24: Entire Electromagnetic Spectrum Vision
25: Underwater Suits.
26: GPS.
27: space Suit.
28: Space Adaptive Component.
29: Chest Mounted Sonic Cannon.
Remote Connection to Satellites, Phones, and Computers through the PAN(Personal Area Network
30: Gauntlets Absorb Energy.
31: EMP nullification Magnetic Rail Gun.
32: EMP equivalent to 50 Megaton Nuke (Most powerful Nuclear Weapon ever created) takes out OMACS.
33: Armor-Piercing Tasers, 200,000 Volt Tasers (between 20–75c what it takes to kill a human).
It able hurt Clayface.
34: Can Assume the Shape of Blades.
35: Holographic Emission Disguise and Holographic Projection into the Batcave
36: Holographic Emulation(Holographic Copy).
37: Holographic Projection Embedded in Gotham Street Lights.
38: Link to Batcave through Cowl.
39: Batman can simply wipe out the evidence of his identity by hacking though One of them is the supposed equal to Calculator who’s capable of taking over a super computer program, the other is the creator of Brother One.
40: The Batcave possesses multiple barriers that not only prevent teleporters from entering, but also prevents a hyper-intelligent Bizarro from taking over.
41: flying device with his normal suit.
42: Batman's cape is fire-proof that can also protect against other things.
43: Developing a cure for an alien virus:.
44: Developing a thing that can liquify Plastic Man.
45: Made tech (stolen by Future Aquaman) that prevents Green Lantern rings from working, (Justice League (2016) #29
46: Made tech (stolen by Future Aquaman) that stops Cyborg from moving, (Justice League (2016) #29
47: his cowl can see though invisible things.
48: His cowl automatically identifies people, has gadgets that can identify radiation and blood.
49: he Made a virus that disrupts atoms.
50: Has Cold Iron Fillings to disrupt magic.
51: Has a chemical that hypersaturates a person and can repair DNA.
52: his sound sonic Batarang and [hypersonic bomb like][https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/vsbattles/images/7/77/A318FFCB-ED50-4968-8A35-DF4C28D3FD39.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20190326145840).
53: His suit is insulated from radiation.
54: created a Batarang that nullifies healing factors.
55: Boots that allow him to walk on ceilings.
56: Made a biometric scanner out of goggles in moments.
57: His suit can fire an AoE sonic blast around itself.
58: He created gauntlets that can hack into devices, and are capable of reading energy levels.
59: another set that enhances his hitting power.
60: his cowl/gauntlets grants him extra Superhumanly enchanted senses like hearing and seeing more.
61: Gauntlets that fire out energy blast that pierce through Deathstrokes suit that’s made out of “Promethium Chain Mail, (Deathstroke (2016) #34).
62: Electric Fisticuffs, (Batman Incorporated (2011) #1).
63: there was once Flash and implemented tech into his suit that allows him to vibrate and phase through things and remember what a Speedster do while vibrating as [thoughts molecules][https://imgur.com/a/B3LH7Ii).
64: created a form of enhanced vision that lets him see through buildings and soiled stuff, (Talon #7).
65: Ultrasonic noise dampeners in his cowl that make him immune to the Canary Cryn (Vixen: Return of the Lion #5)
66: Hologram of a demonic bat, (Batman (1940) #464)
67: A unique gadget that mimics Darkseid's omega beams, but is line of wire that traps an opponent, (Batman The Dark Knight #2).
68: another Invisibility suit.
69: The Cowl also has x-ray vision - Detective Comics (2016) #937
70: Rigs explosives to take down a series of buildings - Batman and Robin Eternal #17
71: Blows up a large ice monster - Justice League: Endless Winter
72: created nth metal batarangs in case he has to fight incorporeal beings such ghosts - Batman Eternal #24
73: his Batarangs can disrupt energy shields - Deathstroke (2016) #32
74: Made a sonic grenade that nullifies a mind controlled crowd - Batman: Secret Files (2018) #2
75: created a device that turns any metal it touches into a supermagnet - Batman (2011
76: Batman cowl Can scan biology and in seconds know details of a foe down to the cellular level - All Star Batman #6
77: Can basically fly by gliding - Batman (2011) #10
78: An example of it in action - Detective Comics (2016) #988
79: [another Batman flight space-suit (yeah even though it look like, it's Have nothing with Batman beyond)][https://i.stack.imgur.com/89NTP.jpg).
80: another's advance one and also Batman cap have immunity to ice too.
Now all that above was some average batman technology feats but now the big cake.
1: Anti-matter Negative Zone Portal canon, literally it sends to Phantom Zone which is the infinite dimensionless void.
2: Re-created the Lazarus Pits in his Cave(Lazarus Pits can cure anything up to and including Death).
3: Perfected Cloning and Memory Transfers.
And this and this.
4: created Robot Duplicates of the Justice League with there powers.
5: Creates the AI J.A.R.V.I.S. for Pepper. It eventually becomes advanced enough to love, fully Sapient(Human-Like) Artificially Intelligent Alfred.
6: rebuild Asgard, Has a Base in the Moon and Base in Greece and Base in Prague and On Pluto and Crime Alley.
7: BATMAN created Omniversal Wormhole Inside of a Bullet, Capable of Ripping Apart Reality and destroy the source wall itself (and Omniversal feat).
8: Created a way to rewrite people cell by cell. Now a lot of people say that this is simply a side effect of Element X(Metal of Possibilty, capable of bringing the wielders will into being) but look at the three bubbles on the top right.

Yes, this chair. Built from Element X, allowed you to see people’s hearts....but then, you took it further, imagined greater. You built the Final Bat-Suit around the chair for yourself. Not just to determine people’s minds, but to change them, rewrite them cell by cell.”

This means that Element X allowed for reading hearts and minds, but so Batman went beyond and created a way to rewrite beings cell by cell. If it was just of Element X, it would have been explicitly stated.
9: Batman creates a universal translator which allows him to communicate with alien life in the universe.
10: He designs the Watchtower security system and then overrides it.
11: In Forever evil #6 Batman is able to break into the Watchtower by activating the manual override which he installed.
12: Created a compound that turns walls into liquid.
13: Anti-telepathy tech, Psychic Dampeners im his cowl.
14: Has made/acquired red solar guns, a large mech, magic chains and a formula that turns him into Doomsday, all to beat Superman, Batman/Superman (2019) Annual #1
15: His final contigency are a series of satellites that will turn the Sun red, Batman/Superman (2019) Annual #1
16: Planted slightly than moon-busting bombs on the moon just in case, Justice League (2018) #1
17: After having his memory wiped, the second time remeeting the Flash he had developed a device that violently sapped him of speedforce, Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #5
this is consistent , Developed technology that mimics the vibrational powers of DC speedsters and speed force.
18: Psychic Invisibility.
19: Chip that can influence the mind and force illusions of endless battles.
20: with the help of Lex Luthor, injustice leagues batman was able created machine allowed travel to different other universes, Injustice Year 5 #39 & #40 (~note: keep in mind the mine batman is far superior to injustice counterpart~).
21: Batman built a flying Batcave back in the day so that he and Robin could operate their vigilante mission from anywhere at anytime, without having to head deep into Gotham to refuel. The spaceship held most of what was needed from the cave and offered a form of transportation for the duo as well.
22: Batman literally created Red Giants, which continues microscopic red suns, collected from dead solar systems as Weapon against Superman.

Batman : “You like the knuckles, Clark. Each pod contains microscopic red suns, collected from dead solar systems

Batman can literally harvest entire red giant stars in deep space, shrink them down and bring them to Earth, and he’s still struggling to find clean, renewable energy?!.

“Our applied sciences division has been working on a clean, renewable energy source.”

It's consistent as he have done this twice.
23: he created Insider Suit that can Invisibility and Heat Vision and Quasi-Green Lantern mode and accuse to the speed force.

So we all know Bruce Wayan is one of the most intelligent super genius characters in the DC universe.
So let's talk about his intelligence first (then the tech invention)
Geoff Johns confirmed that Bruce Wayne is definitively the 2nd smartest person on Earth. This automatically makes him more intelligent than everyone on Earth save for Lex Luthor, with an IQ of over 250.
Has one of the greatest minds in the entire DC Omniverse - Justice League (2018) #23
So let's some common misunderstanding about batman IQ being just 192.
That was never attributed to Batman, only Ted Kord.
anyway Batman automatically for being the second (only behind Lex) IQ in the Earth out him above Ryan Choi who have IQ 200 and and Hiro Okamura who have IQ over 210.
So now we have Batman IQ over at 210+ and possibly 250.
Batman is an Omni-Disciplinary Scientist and martial arts(Master of every scientific field known to man i.e. Reed Richards, Victor von Doom, Lex Luthor), mastering “EVERY COURSE AND FIELD. EVERY SUBJECT AND TRADE.” and the worlds greatest detective and confirmed have all knowledge of science history.
He is the greatest strategist and tactician in the world.
[Deduced what Brainiac 5 (most intelligent being in the 31st century Multiverse) missed][https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-d440bfa51d428571dd0f7cc32f317d28-lq).
Batman mastered every scientific discipline known to man, and beyond, of which there are between 600–800.
Figured out Zeta Beam (teleportation) technology in an instant that took the super-genius level Adam Strange years. 6th panel..
Batman is able to hack into a NASA satellite and transfer its information onto his servers.
He easily Easily hacked into Lexcorp and Darkseid's Hellspores.
Hacks Kryptonian computer in second and Hacks Apokolyptian computer.
Within seconds hacks an alien computer.
Hack even if someone discovered batman identity, he dosen't even worry about it, he just can manipulate someone fooling him on physiological thinking that he’s forced to put on the costume if he could fool that. Especially given how frequent mind-control is among Batman’s rogues.
He even once he’s exposed himself during a disinformation campaign.

Just one more crackpot conspiracy theory among a thousand others. More tabloid tittle tattle and craziness surrounding mad, bad Bruce Wayne. In a world where no one can be sure what’s real and what’s not.”
—Bruce Wayne

So firstly Batman is the one who build his technology by himself.
Just in the beginning, let me tell you Batman have created time travel Machine single handily and Program that Predicts the past, present and Future and every possibility.
Teleporter and Teleportation Via Watchtower he Designed
He created Haz-Bat a suit that Withstood the pull of a black hole.
Hack he created even his own element (feat like Tony Stark), Batman creates an element that has the same effects on Wraith that Kryptonite does to Superman(Yes, Superman says mineral, but Kryptonite is consistently classified as an element).
Built a device that can slow down time to the point that the Flash is barely moving or how he created Shrink Ray.
Batman tech.
1: Magnetism in Gloves for Adhesion.
2: Magnetizing Batarang (note: 3-D Collapsible Micro-Structure Material for Compact Storage).
3: Wallet-Sized Collapsible Suit.
4: Chemically Fueled Thrusters.
Proton Gun(A.K.A. Phaser, Disruptor, Particle Accelerator Gun, Ion Cannon, Proton Beam, Lightning Ray and Ray Gun)
5: Energy Pulse that Dismantles Mech.
6: Energy Cannon.
7: Gun Atomizes Concrete.
8: Ultraviolet Image Reproduction.
9: Microprocessor(7th Capsule). Clearly this is old and Batman has since upgraded.
10: Signal and Comms Jammer.
11: Voice & Sound Modulation/Duplication.
12: Finger Lasers.
13: Concussive Grenades.
ECM(Electronic Counter-Measures) Against Radar and Sonar
14: Radar and Acoustic Triangulation are useless.
15: Insider Suit Mimics [Flash’s Speedhttps://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-76e0dd71bda266c21b6c403f926744dc-lq).
16: Thermocouple for solar Energy Siphoning.
17: Energy Generated Constructs shields.
18: created Plasma Shield.
19: Decontamination of Irradiated Areas.
19: enchanted and night qmd Infrared and Thermal and X-Ray and heat vision and Ultraviolet Visions.
20: Life Detection.
21: Digital Invisibility.
22: Freeze Rays.
23: Echolocation.
24: Entire Electromagnetic Spectrum Vision
25: Underwater Suits.
26: GPS.
27: space Suit.
28: Space Adaptive Component.
29: Chest Mounted Sonic Cannon.
Remote Connection to Satellites, Phones, and Computers through the PAN(Personal Area Network
30: Gauntlets Absorb Energy.
31: EMP nullification Magnetic Rail Gun.
32: EMP equivalent to 50 Megaton Nuke (Most powerful Nuclear Weapon ever created) takes out OMACS.
33: Armor-Piercing Tasers, 200,000 Volt Tasers (between 20–75c what it takes to kill a human).
It able hurt Clayface.
34: Can Assume the Shape of Blades.
35: Holographic Emission Disguise and Holographic Projection into the Batcave
36: Holographic Emulation(Holographic Copy).
37: Holographic Projection Embedded in Gotham Street Lights.
38: Link to Batcave through Cowl.
39: Batman can simply wipe out the evidence of his identity by hacking though One of them is the supposed equal to Calculator who’s capable of taking over a super computer program, the other is the creator of Brother One.
40: The Batcave possesses multiple barriers that not only prevent teleporters from entering, but also prevents a hyper-intelligent Bizarro from taking over.
41: flying device with his normal suit.
42: Batman's cape is fire-proof that can also protect against other things.
43: Developing a cure for an alien virus:.
44: Developing a thing that can liquify Plastic Man.
45: Made tech (stolen by Future Aquaman) that prevents Green Lantern rings from working, (Justice League (2016) #29
46: Made tech (stolen by Future Aquaman) that stops Cyborg from moving, (Justice League (2016) #29
47: his cowl can see though invisible things.
48: His cowl automatically identifies people, has gadgets that can identify radiation and blood.
49: he Made a virus that disrupts atoms.
50: Has Cold Iron Fillings to disrupt magic.
51: Has a chemical that hypersaturates a person and can repair DNA.
52: his sound sonic Batarang and [hypersonic bomb like][https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/vsbattles/images/7/77/A318FFCB-ED50-4968-8A35-DF4C28D3FD39.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20190326145840).
53: His suit is insulated from radiation.
54: created a Batarang that nullifies healing factors.
55: Boots that allow him to walk on ceilings.
56: Made a biometric scanner out of goggles in moments.
57: His suit can fire an AoE sonic blast around itself.
58: He created gauntlets that can hack into devices, and are capable of reading energy levels.
59: another set that enhances his hitting power.
60: his cowl/gauntlets grants him extra Superhumanly enchanted senses like hearing and seeing more.
61: Gauntlets that fire out energy blast that pierce through Deathstrokes suit that’s made out of “Promethium Chain Mail, (Deathstroke (2016) #34).
62: Electric Fisticuffs, (Batman Incorporated (2011) #1).
63: there was once Flash and implemented tech into his suit that allows him to vibrate and phase through things and remember what a Speedster do while vibrating as [thoughts molecules][https://imgur.com/a/B3LH7Ii).
64: created a form of enhanced vision that lets him see through buildings and soiled stuff, (Talon #7).
65: Ultrasonic noise dampeners in his cowl that make him immune to the Canary Cryn (Vixen: Return of the Lion #5)
66: Hologram of a demonic bat, (Batman (1940) #464)
67: A unique gadget that mimics Darkseid's omega beams, but is line of wire that traps an opponent, (Batman The Dark Knight #2).
68: another Invisibility suit.
69: The Cowl also has x-ray vision - Detective Comics (2016) #937
70: Rigs explosives to take down a series of buildings - Batman and Robin Eternal #17
71: Blows up a large ice monster - Justice League: Endless Winter
72: created nth metal batarangs in case he has to fight incorporeal beings such ghosts - Batman Eternal #24
73: his Batarangs can disrupt energy shields - Deathstroke (2016) #32
74: Made a sonic grenade that nullifies a mind controlled crowd - Batman: Secret Files (2018) #2
75: created a device that turns any metal it touches into a supermagnet - Batman (2011
76: Batman cowl Can scan biology and in seconds know details of a foe down to the cellular level - All Star Batman #6
77: Can basically fly by gliding - Batman (2011) #10
78: An example of it in action - Detective Comics (2016) #988
79: [another Batman flight space-suit (yeah even though it look like, it's Have nothing with Batman beyond)][https://i.stack.imgur.com/89NTP.jpg).
80: another's advance one and also Batman cap have immunity to ice too.
Now all that above was some average batman technology feats but now the big cake.
1: Anti-matter Negative Zone Portal canon, literally it sends to Phantom Zone which is the infinite dimensionless void.
2: Re-created the Lazarus Pits in his Cave(Lazarus Pits can cure anything up to and including Death).
3: Perfected Cloning and Memory Transfers.
And this and this.
4: created Robot Duplicates of the Justice League with there powers.
5: Creates the AI J.A.R.V.I.S. for Pepper. It eventually becomes advanced enough to love, fully Sapient(Human-Like) Artificially Intelligent Alfred.
6: rebuild Asgard, Has a Base in the Moon and Base in Greece and Base in Prague and On Pluto and Crime Alley.
7: BATMAN created Omniversal Wormhole Inside of a Bullet, Capable of Ripping Apart Reality and destroy the source wall itself (and Omniversal feat).
8: Created a way to rewrite people cell by cell. Now a lot of people say that this is simply a side effect of Element X(Metal of Possibilty, capable of bringing the wielders will into being) but look at the three bubbles on the top right.

Yes, this chair. Built from Element X, allowed you to see people’s hearts....but then, you took it further, imagined greater. You built the Final Bat-Suit around the chair for yourself. Not just to determine people’s minds, but to change them, rewrite them cell by cell.”

This means that Element X allowed for reading hearts and minds, but so Batman went beyond and created a way to rewrite beings cell by cell. If it was just of Element X, it would have been explicitly stated.
9: Batman creates a universal translator which allows him to communicate with alien life in the universe.
10: He designs the Watchtower security system and then overrides it.
11: In Forever evil #6 Batman is able to break into the Watchtower by activating the manual override which he installed.
12: Created a compound that turns walls into liquid.
13: Anti-telepathy tech, Psychic Dampeners im his cowl.
14: Has made/acquired red solar guns, a large mech, magic chains and a formula that turns him into Doomsday, all to beat Superman, Batman/Superman (2019) Annual #1
15: His final contigency are a series of satellites that will turn the Sun red, Batman/Superman (2019) Annual #1
16: Planted slightly than moon-busting bombs on the moon just in case, Justice League (2018) #1
17: After having his memory wiped, the second time remeeting the Flash he had developed a device that violently sapped him of speedforce, Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #5
this is consistent , Developed technology that mimics the vibrational powers of DC speedsters and speed force.
18: Psychic Invisibility.
19: Chip that can influence the mind and force illusions of endless battles.
20: with the help of Lex Luthor, injustice leagues batman was able created machine allowed travel to different other universes, Injustice Year 5 #39 & #40 (~note: keep in mind the mine batman is far superior to injustice counterpart~).
21: Batman built a flying Batcave back in the day so that he and Robin could operate their vigilante mission from anywhere at anytime, without having to head deep into Gotham to refuel. The spaceship held most of what was needed from the cave and offered a form of transportation for the duo as well.
22: Batman literally created Red Giants, which continues microscopic red suns, collected from dead solar systems as Weapon against Superman.

Batman : “You like the knuckles, Clark. Each pod contains microscopic red suns, collected from dead solar systems

Batman can literally harvest entire red giant stars in deep space, shrink them down and bring them to Earth, and he’s still struggling to find clean, renewable energy?!.

“Our applied sciences division has been working on a clean, renewable energy source.”

It's consistent as he have done this twice.
23: he created Insider Suit that can Invisibility and Heat Vision and Quasi-Green Lantern mode and accuse to the speed force.

I've seen quite a few posts in this sub of people with chronic chest pain (>1 month) after quitting but their xray or ct scans suggest that nothing can be indicative to it. Here in this post, I will offer some explanation as to why it can occur. I did use chat GPT to fill in significant knowledge gaps, because finding exact articles will take a lot longer time. For context, I've been also having chest pain for 4 weeks now and counting since my last exposure to vape, but the chest pain has reduced. It is still there though, and my pulmo could detect me "wheezing" when asked to hyperventilate. On normal breathing though, there seemed to be no wheezing present.
A chest xray will be limited in resolution and won't be able to detect any abnormalities that are small. A High Res CT scan is more definitive but has higher radiation than chest Xrays. Try to balance it out when it comes to deciding when to do imaging tests for your lungs.
So far as of my research, the chest pain can be: 1.) Pleuritic Chest Pain - This means the pleura of your lungs is inflamed due to vaping. Taking in NSAIDs may help, but don't overdo it less you overdose. Only take in what is needed. If you took NSAIDs and the chest pain is still present, then its probably reason 2.)
2.) Bronchioconstriction - Personally I think this is the most plausible explanation of chest pain after exposure to vape. This is because your bronchioles (the smaller airways in the lung) constrict, resembling "chest tightness" or "chest pain" that people describe after quitting. This is also a plausible explanation, because formaldehyde is known to constrict the bronchioles. Now I know one may argue that hey, that toxin also present in smoking, but I did find data that formaldehyde level in vapes is 5 to 15x more in vaping than in smoking! The dose makes the poison. According to this reddit poster (scroll down the comments), it's possible to feel sensations from your bronchioles as he linked a study.
I think the biggest culprit, rather than propylene glycol or vegetable glycerin, is actually Formaldehyde.
Formaldehyde is used to preserve dead things
Formaldehyde is also known as a product of propylene glycol and glycerol vapor degradation. Electronic cigarette generates carbonyl compound in the electronic cigarette smoke mist from the oxidation of liquids such as glycerol and glycols. These liquids are oxidized to formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, acrolein, glyoxal, and methylglyoxal [12]. Thermodegradation of glycerol can lead to various carbonyls, such as acrolein and formaldehyde [13, 14]. Formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and propionaldehyde were found at room temperature. It showed that at temperature of 150°C the level of formaldehyde and acetaldehyde was higher 20-fold than ambient temperature
In asthma, bronchoconstriction happens and hence once can hear the wheezing sound.
Long term use of vapes, there is a study that found 4 patients contracted Constrictive Bronchiolitis (aka Bronchitis Obliterans or popcorn lung) who vaped around 3-8 years. They used a variety of vapes just as a normal vaper would want to try out other flavors in the course of their vaping journey. Unfortunately however, this disease, if you already know, is irreversible and progressive. It can stabilize or stop, but there is no cure or treatment for this disease.
Wikipedia though says that the mechanism for BO (Bronchitis Obliterans)/CB (Constrictive Broncholitis) triggers when epithelial or sub epithileal cells lose the ability to repair.

Bronchiolitis obliterans (BO), also known as obliterative bronchiolitis, constrictive bronchiolitis and popcorn lung, is a disease that results in obstruction of the smallest airways of the lungs (bronchioles) due to inflammation. Symptoms include a dry cough, shortness of breath, wheezing and feeling tired. These symptoms generally get worse over weeks to months. It is not related to cryptogenic organizing pneumonia, previously known as bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia.
Causes include breathing in toxic fumes, respiratory infections, connective tissue disorder or complications following a bone marrow or heart-lung transplant.[1] Symptoms may not occur until two to eight weeks following toxic exposure or infection.[1] The underlying mechanism involves inflammation that results in scar tissue formation.[1] Diagnosis is by CT scan, pulmonary function tests or lung biopsy.[1] A chest X-ray is often normal.
While the disease is not reversible, treatments can slow further worsening.[1] This may include the use of corticosteroids or immunosuppressive medication.[1] A lung transplant may be offered.[4] Outcomes are often poor, with most people dying in months to years.
Bronchiolitis obliterans results in worsening shortness of breath, wheezing, and a dry cough. The symptoms can start gradually, or severe symptoms can occur suddenly. These symptoms represent an obstructive pattern that is non-reversible with bronchodilator therapy, and need to be related to various lung insults. These insults include inhalation damage, post-transplant auto-immune injury, post-infectious disease, drug reactions, and several auto-immune diseases.

Wikipedia
The underlying mechanism involves injury and inflammation of epithelial and sub-epithelial cells. These cells then lose the ability to repair the tissue, in particular they lose the ability to regenerate the epithelial or outermost layer, leading to the excess growth of cells that cause scarring.[11][6][1] There are multiple pathways of the disease including fibrotic, lymphocytic, and antibody-mediated that have been described. However, while each pathway has a more unique starting point and cause, the result is still injury and inflammation leading to scarring of the lung tissue.[11] The scarred tissue then makes the expiration phase of respiration more difficult, leading to air not being expelled from the lungs. This is termed "air-trapping", which can be seen on medical imaging.[6] Since the scarring is non-reversible, the disease generally does not improve over time, and depending on the inciting can progress to death
Also tidbit - diacetyl isn't the only chemical that can cause popcorn lung. Formaldehyde can too as well as others shown here. This is why researches say there is still a link between vaping and popcorn lung, even if people just try to pin it down to diacetyl or 2-3 pentadiene or to a single compound to downplay it. Another source as well. As mentioned, CB/OB tends to develop over time but any long term chronic inflammation, is generally a bad idea. The big question though is how to prevent it from happening or progressing (I.e. how to reduce inflammation of epithelial and sub-epithelial cells and promote healing instead of progressing into fibrosis, lymphocytic or other responses). For context, take the case of some US veterans serving in places like Iraq and were assigned to burn pit duty. 6 years later down the line, one of them developed BO. (Around Timestamp 3:00)
3.) Lipoid Pneumonia - This occurs IF your vape is found to have oils in it (PG/VG are not considered "oils), but oils such as vitamin E acetate are. According to this video, (Timestamp 7:50) it is a non-specific finding in vape illness victims. You can get a BAL (bronchiolar alveolar lavage) fluid and then stain it with oil-o-red to see if there are any oils present in the alveolar macrophages.
In some cases though, as told by the video, the lipid actually comes from dead tissues of within your lungs, manifesting as foamy macrophages rather than a true exogenous lipoid pneumonia from a person, say aspirating mineral oil or VEA (vitamin E Acetate), hence why the video says this finding may be non specific.
Lipoid pneumonia does present which chest pain though, as a symptom.
4.) Costochondritis - This presents only in the center (sternum area) of your chest. It usually happens after weeks of chronic coughing (daily basis), where your cartilage starts to press onto the muscles. It can resolve away over time as long as the chronic coughing stops or you can use NSAIDs.
Other studies:
Study 1 - Short‐Term E‐Cigarette Exposure Increases the Risk of Thrombogenesis and Enhances Platelet Function in Mice
Study 2 - Effects of e-cigarettes and vaping devices on cardiac and pulmonary physiology
The flavoring of each vape depends on the chemical composition (Timestamp 6:55).
Low doses of mustard gas can cause BO in the long run.

Today's anniversaries are:
2001

• Venetian Snares - Songs about My Cats (electronic, idm, analog, breakcore, jungle, Winnipeg)

2007

• Magic Pie - Circus of Life (rock, classic rock, prog rock, progressive rock, Moss)

2013

• Between the Lions - The Painter. The Liar. The Canvas. The Noose (metal, hardcore, melodic hardcore, metalcore, progressive, York)
  
• Colin Stetson - New History Warfare, Volume 3: To See More Light (experimental, indie, jazz, instrumental, Montréal)
  
• Darcy James Argue's Secret Society - Brooklyn Babylon (classical, jazz, Brooklyn)
  
• Mad Essence - Reunion (metal, cybercore, djent, electronicore, hybrid, industrial, industrial metal, metalcore, neurocore, post-hardcore, progressive metal, rap metal, rapcore, synthcore, trancecore, Kiev)
  
• My Woshin Mashin - Evil Must Die (electronic, twer, crossover, electronic, electropop, electropunk, experimental pop, indie, synthwave, trip hop, trip-hop, Chupriyanovo)
  

2015

• Genetics - Dr. Spookymuffin (electronic, electronic rock, experimental, metal, progressive rock, rock, dance music, experimental rock, funk, funk soul, improvisation, jam band, psychedelic, space rock, Colorado)
  
• Rorcal - La Femme sans tête (black metal, geneva, metal, doom, drone, post-hardcore, post-metal, Switzerland)
  

2016

• Format - Empyrée (rock, instrumental, math rock, noise, post-rock, Clermont Ferrand)
  
• Qrixkuor - Three Devils Dance (death metal, metal, London)
  

2017

• Immortal Abyss - Immortal Abyss (Metal)
  
• Impending Annihilation - Dēlīrium tremēns (metal, pathologic technical death metal, Nagoya)
  
• Loathfinder - The Great Tired Ones (metal, black, blackended, doom)
  
• Suns of Sorath - Flowers of the Lily (black metal, death metal, metal, progressive metal, Denver)
  

2018

• Curse League - Laying by the Fire in Good Company (punk, emo, math rock, mathrock, tapping, twinkly shit, Seattle)
  
• Ensemble Atlantica - Mnemonic Verses (Classical)
  
• Holosphere - Ⅰ (metal, djent, heavy metal, instrumental, rock, Florida)
  
• Oliba International - Oliba International (world, afro, exotic, tsapiky, Angers)
  
• Thirdegree - Ones & Zeros, Volume 0 (rock, art rock, distopia, progressive rock, robots, technology, transhumanism, New Jersey)
  
• Verneri Pohjola & Samuel Blaser - City of Gardens (jazz, krzysztof gradziuk, maciej garbowski, rgg, samuel blaser, verneri pohjola, Łukasz ojdana, Warsaw) Read our review.
  

2019

• Ayankoko - ກ້ຽວສາວ (Kiauasav) (experimental, idm, abstract, ambient electronic, asian, experimental electronic, London)
  
• Clouds Taste Satanic - Evil Eye (doom, doom metal, heavy metal, heavy rock, instru-metal, instrumental, metal, post-doom, stoner, stoner metal, stoner rock, instrumetal, New York)
  
• Den infernalske dans - Ingen vej tilbage (metal, instrumental, jazz fusion, progressive metal, Oslo)
  
• MRW - ばけもの : 悲しみの復活 (Bakemono : Kanashimi no fukkatsu) (experimental, ambient, ambient rock, instrumental, jazz rock, post progressive metal, post-prog, post-progressive, post-rock, postrock, soundscapes, zeuhl, Sosnowiec)
  
• Neige et Noirceur - Interstellar Enigmatic Throne (avantgarde metal, black metal, dark metal, doom metal, metal, Italy)
  
• Num - False Awakening (ambient, avant, avant noise, avant-garde, avantgarde, black, dark, dark ambient, drone, electronica, ethereal, noise, ominous, soundscape, spacemusic, Indianapolis)
  
• Phineas Brady - Commonfate (electronic, experimental, braindance, experimental electronic, sound design, Iowa City)
  
• Sales de baño - Geometría del vínculo (experimental, ambient, improv, psych, Lima) Read our review.
  
• Sferos - Set It Up as Silence (experimental, jazz, avant-garde, creative, latinamerican, noise, New York) Read our review.
  
• Thomas Beckman - Life in the Universe (classical, contemporary classical, Vancouver)
  
• Whalesong - Gateway (experimental, industrial metal, metal, ambient, doom, doom metal, drone, drone doom, industrial, minimal, no wave, post-punk, psychedelic, sludge metal, spectral, Tarnowskie Góry)
  
• Zlatko Kaučič, Lotte Anker, Johannes Bauer, Agustí Fernández, Artur Majewski, Rafał Mazur, Phil Minton, and Evan Parker - Diversity #1 (jazz, free jazz, improvised music, jazz, Slovenia) Read our review.
  

2020

• Aaron Novik - Frowny Frown 2 (experimental jazz)
  
• Ad īnfīnītum - Trīstitiae (post-black metal)
  
• Adam Shead's Adiaphora Orchestra - Miniature Paintings and the Impossible Warehouse (contemporary classical)
  
• Albionic Hermeticism & Decoherence - Split (black metal)
  
• Arrebol - El que rehúye las esencias (post-black metal)
  
• Atrium - Cerulean (progressive metal)
  
• Becomes Astral - Purgatory (progressive death metal)
  
• Benjamin Jephta - The Evolution of an Undefined (modern jazz)
  
• Codex Orzhova - Baja Blasted (experimental mathcore)
  
• Holy Power - 九夜 (Gáu jeh / Nine Nights) (symphonic death metal)
  
• Karmacipher - Introspectrum (avant-garde death metal) Read our review.
  
• Ladyscraper - Heavy Electronics (breakcore)
  
• Sketch the Sky - Lock (progressive rock, nu jazz)
  
• Surgery Head - Devil Sounds, Part Ⅱ: Dominant of Witchcraft (darkwave)
  
• Tim Berne & Nasheet Waits - The Coandă Effect (avant-garde jazz)
  
• Tuscoma - Discourse (blackened post-metal)
  
• Αγαμέμνων Μουστάκας, Περσέας Ρίζος, και Στέφανος Χυτήρης (Agamémnōn Moustákas, Perséas Rízos, kai Stéphanos Chytíris) - Τραγέλαφος (Tragélafos) (avant-garde jazz)
  
• 美川俊治と小埜涼子 (Mikawa Toshiji to Ono Ryōko) - Duo (experimental jazz)
  

2021

• 3223 - Voyage (math rock)
  
• Agabas - Voluspå (jazzcore)
  
• Akhenaten - The Emerald Tablets of Thoth (folk black metal)
  
• Apnea - Stasi (post-metal)
  
• Błoto - Kwasy i zasady (electro-jazz)
  
• Crown Magnetar - The Codex of Flesh (technical deathcore)
  
• Damien Kingston Quartet - Wells (avant-garde jazz)
  
• Daniel Thatcher - Waterwheel (avant-garde jazz)
  
• Desmond White - Run the Sunny Gauntlet (indie jazz)
  
• Diagonal & Jean-Christophe Cholet - Back in Tunisia (world fusion)
  
• Faraji Heritage Experiement - Mwili (world fusion)
  
• Gojira - Fortitude (progressive metal)
  
• Hassan K - Isteghna (avant-garde metal)
  
• Iain Sinclair & London Experimental Ensemble - Dark before Dark (contemporary classical)
  
• Laura Cannell & Kate Ellis - These Feral Lands: April Sounds (contemporary classical)
  
• Lauren Lee - Queen of Cups (modern jazz)
  
• Lisa Cameron & Sandy Ewen - See Creatures Too (free improvisation)
  
• Matt Sweeney & Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Superwolves (indie folk)
  
• Michael Wollny, Emile Parisien, Tim Lefebvre, and Christian Lillinger - XXXX (avant-garde jazz)
  
• Mission Jupiter - Talk to Me (progressive metal)
  
• Ophiuchi - Shibboleth (experimental black metal)
  
• Pamirt - Mausoleum (post-metal, opera)
  
• Rob Frye - Chihuahuan Desert & Birdscapes (experimental electro)
  
• Rodziewicz - Rojazzvitch (nu jazz)
  
• Vallendusk - Heralds of Strife (atmospheric black metal)
  
• Бѣсъ (Běsʺ / Biese) - Чертополохъ (Čertopolox" / Thistle) (atmospheric black metal)
  

2022

• Agriculture - The Circle Chant (blackgaze)
  
• Antoine Brochot Quartet - Fundāmentum (modern jazz)
  
• Fluorescence - Dream (contemporary classical)
  
• Negative Plane - The Pact (black metal)
  
• Reverb on Repeat - Demo (ambient post-rock)
  
• Sulphur Sovereign - Anathematic Gateway to Nothingness (black metal)
  

2023

• Beyond the Reach of Tempests - Whispering a Prayer (post-rock)
  
• Call to Prayer - Hiemal Anemone (black metal)
  
• Cordura - Nibiru X (technical death metal)
  
• Cosmic Jaguar - The Legacy of the Aztecs (progressive thrash metal)
  
• Ola Englund - The Chug Project, Volume 1 (melodic death metal)
  

Back in 2012, I believe I stopped the Apocalypse.
I remember staring down at the endless hole in the desert with wonder and awe. It seemed to go on forever. A life-long friend of mine named Bear stood by my side. He scanned the ground and found a large, smooth rock. It must’ve weighed at least sixty pounds. He rolled it over to the edge of the seemingly infinite void and let it drop.
I heard the stone clatter against the walls, smashing against one side and releasing a rush of small pebbles and clods of dirt. They soared downwards with the rock, reminding me of the sands in an eternal hourglass.
“Look, there’s stairs,” Bear’s girlfriend Stephanie said, pointing a freshly-painted red nail at the steps. They looked hewn from solid rock and spiraled down into the darkness far below. Stephanie tilted her head slightly to the side, moving locks of dirty blonde hair away from her eyes. Her appearance reminded me of Emma Stone, and though nearly twenty-five, she still looked like a teenager.
We stood in the middle of Death Valley. The sun sizzled overhead, sending out blinding light that reflected off the sands. Rippling mirages rose off the burning hot ground. Dunes surrounded us, looking as dead and lifeless as an alien planet.
I looked up at the light blue sky and didn’t see a single cloud. It must’ve been 100 degrees out. Rivulets of sweat trickled down from my hair and forehead, stinging my eyes. I wiped it away, looking back down the hole. I kept expecting this aberration of a pit to evaporate like some sort of bizarre optical illusion, yet there it still stood, a large circle about thirty feet across with ancient granite steps. And, of course, the steps had no railings. They looked fairly narrow, maybe a couple feet across.
Well, I considered that narrow, considering the thousands of feet of empty space I would fall through if I slipped. I thought about how the drop would feel, screaming for minutes and knowing I was about to die, the ground coming up to meet me, the air roaring like a tornado in my ears. I shuddered. The mental image seemed far too vivid.
I glanced at my two friends. Bear was casually smoking a cigarette, raising his tattooed hand. I looked at the tattoo- a reptilian, slitted eye surrounded by the golden spiral.
He stood much taller than me and, having done physical labor his entire life, he also had a thick covering of muscle. He was a metal-head and urban explorer, and about 90% of his body was covered in tattoos. Stephanie and he made an unusual pair, she with her straight-edge, valley girl looks, and Bear looking like he just climbed out of a mosh pit at a Deicide show.
He flicked the half-smoked butt into the pit, smoothing his long black hair with his hands. I watched the red light of the ember streak across the darkness and disappear into the endless shadows waiting below.
“Do you think anyone else knows about this?” I asked. Bear had a sly grin across his scruffy face. His blue eyes flashed with amusement. He put his arm around Stephanie.
“Well, if no one has, maybe we can make money off of it,” he said. Stephanie smiled faintly at that. “I’ve heard of people who discovered caves making money off giving tours. Maybe we can buy this crappy little plot of land out here!”
“This might be state land,” I said. “Actually, it might even be federal. I’m not sure where the borders of the national park end. Not like anyone would be going around labeling borders out here.” I waved my hand lethargically at the dead, sunburnt desert all around us. Absolutely no one lived out here, except maybe the secret mutant descendants of the Manson Family.
“Regardless, we should go explore it,” Stephanie said. “If we’re going to claim we discovered some new wonder of the world, we should be able to tell people what’s in it.”
“Yeah, and what if we get lost and starve to death down there?” I asked. “There’s no cell service out here. No one would ever find our bodies. We would just disappear into thin air. We can’t even call anyone to let them know where we are.”
“That’s part of the adventure!” Stephanie said, laughing. “You weren’t complaining when you dragged us all to that abandoned mental asylum and took us to the underground tunnels.”
“I’m with Stephanie,” Bear said, gesticulating crazily with his hands. “I want to go explore. I think it would be awesome to have a cave system named after us. We still have flashlights and plenty of food and water in the car. I have lighters and knives, cigarettes and booze, hell, even my pistol. Not like I think we’ll need it, unless there’s rattlesnakes down there that we need to shoot.” In hindsight, it was amazing just how wrong he was.
***
We each had a backpack filled with goods. Since we had been traveling across California and camping, seeing every national park possible, we had plenty of extra supplies. In fact, the issue became the amount of weight each of us could carry. I had them fill the backpacks with as much food and water as possible, leaving only room for ammunition, jackets and some extra clothes.
“You act like we’re going to be down there for the next year,” Stephanie complained, rolling her eyes as she hefted the heavy backpack around her shoulder with a soft grunt. “Alright, let’s do this! I am so excited right now. I feel like Bilbo Baggins must’ve when he walked out his front door with Gandalf.” Bear grinned like a madman, lighting up another cigarette. Without a word or a moment of hesitation, he put his backpack on and jumped down to the first step, a drop of about five feet. My stomach did flips just watching him. He apparently had no fear of heights at all.
As I looked down on Bear, it struck me how perfect the circular formation of the pit was. It almost looked man-made or somehow unnatural. Nature rarely works in straight lines and perfect circles, after all.
Stephanie went next, lowering herself carefully from the edge and hanging down by her arms until her feet were securely on the step. Unlike Bear, who at times I thought might be slightly insane, she did not simply jump onto the stone.
I edged closer to the pit, looking down. A sense of vertigo overtook me. The eternal blackness of the void seemed like a dilated pupil, a staring eye. I felt watched from below.
But I was not going to look like a chickenshit in front of my friends. They were both clearly excited, especially Bear, who started hopping from one foot to another, anxiously looking up at me and waving me on. He reminded me of a puppy excited about going on a walk. They had already started descending and stood a few dozen feet below the first step.
With a thudding heart, I followed Stephanie’s example, slowly lowering myself down from the ledge onto the first step. Once secure, I looked down.
The circling stairs almost seemed like a slit-open conch shell, the swirling golden spiral extending into forever. My friends looked so small standing on those unceasing steps, and for a moment, my intuition screamed at me, “Get out! Get out!”
But instead, I took a deep breath and started the descent into the bottomless pit.
***
We traveled for hours. I lost track of time. All of our phones stopped working, and even though I had just charged mine, the screen simply went black. Stephanie’s watch stopped ticking after a few minutes descending. I didn’t know if there was some kind of magnetism in the pit that disabled electronic devices, but regardless, we no longer had any way to tell time.
“God, how long has it been?” Stephanie asked after our fifth break. We sat on the steps, our headlamps sending eerie bouncing shadows all around us. A few of the steps nearby had thin, jagged cracks running through the stone, branching like lightning bolts. I wondered if they would crumble under our feet as we passed.
“It feels like at least six or seven hours,” Bear said, no longer as excited as he was at the start. Part of it was undoubtedly fatigue, which we all felt. I had a creeping suspicion we had made a colossal mistake by coming down here. Bear still had a sense of determination, however, and he wanted to keep going. “How far down do you think we are?” No one answered. The air felt oppressive and extremely heavy.
“What do you want to do if we don’t find anything in the next hour or so?” I asked. “I mean, are we just going to keep going down forever? We should make a plan to turn around at a certain point.”
“Oh man, give me a break,” Bear said, rolling his eyes. “What in the hell do you have to do today? You act like this isn’t the coolest thing we’ve found on this trip. We should keep going down until we find something, or until we need to turn around because we’re running low on water and food. This is probably a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, man.” I sighed. My legs ached and my feet screamed at me. I could feel the blisters rising on my toes. We rose and started descending again.
It was then that we heard a sound like a lion roaring echoing up from far below. It sounded predatory and animalistic but magnified to a deafening cacophony like an exploding hydrogen bomb. The stairs began to shake. Falling streams of dust and pebbles streamed down all around us. I tried to scream but I didn’t know if I actually was, because all I could hear was that demonic roar.
I clung to the wall of the pit as the sound started to fade and then rapidly died down to nothing. Within a few seconds, it had passed. I looked at Bear and Stephanie. They looked pale and shaken in the bright LED lights of the headlamp.
“Jesus Christ,” Bear said, his hands trembling as he reached into his pocket for his pack of cigarettes. “I thought I was going to die for a few seconds there.” He had succinctly expressed all of our thoughts, I felt.
“We can’t keep going down,” I said. “This is insane. What if that was an earthquake? What if there’s more aftershocks coming? We should start heading back up now. I’m not dying here.” Stephanie and Bear nodded, agreeing without any argument. Even Bear, who was normally fearless, seemed to have lost all of his enthusiasm for this adventure.
But when we turned and shone our headlamps up, I saw the stairs a few hundred feet above us had collapsed during the bone-rattling explosion of sound. About thirty feet of steps had simply vanished, crumbling into the void. I suddenly felt very much less secure standing there. I wondered how structurally sound the step I stood on really was. My heart felt like it would beat right out of my chest.
“Well, I guess the only way out is forwards,” Stephanie whispered in a frightened voice. “Maybe this cave or whatever it is has branching tunnels that lead back up. Something this massive has to have more than one way in and out.” I didn’t really agree with her, however. This pit was not a natural cave system as far as I could tell. We had no idea if other paths led out.
We kept descending. I clung close to the wall in case that ear-splitting cacophony started again. I wondered what had made it. Perhaps the echoes of shifting tectonic plates amplified as they rose up the pit and just sounded like a predator’s thundering cry.
Far below, my headlamp ran over an aberration in the smooth golden spiral of the endless steps. I saw a massive archway, at least ten feet tall. Its sides met in a point at the top, forming an upside-down curving V.
Bear and Stephanie saw it at the same time as I did. Their eyes widened in surprise and delight. But a sense of fear gripped me when I saw the archway. Its architecture looked alien. As we got closer, I saw it glistened like obsidian. Gleaming black rainbows ran over its length when our lights touched it.
“Oh, thank God!” Stephanie cried. Bear ran ahead, sprinting down the steps, like a man dying of dehydration running towards water.
“Hey, wait up!” I called, feeling suddenly very vulnerable. I looked down the stairs. Far below me, I saw a thin crack that ran down the wall of the pit for hundreds of feet. I caught a glimpse of a face peeking out of it.
The creature had bone-white skin and pure black eyes. Its features seemed a combination of human and demon. Its insane rictus grin showed many sharp, long teeth. Within a fraction of a second, though, it disappeared into the crack, and I wondered whether I had really seen it. Perhaps all the darkness had caused me to start hallucinating. I knew that prolonged sensory deprivation could cause hallucinations and potentially bizarre experiences, having tried sensory deprivation tanks both sober and after eating magic mushrooms.
Stephanie and Bear stood in front of the obsidian arch, peering down a massive stone tunnel. The ceiling towered thirty feet overhead. Sharp stalactites hung over our heads like waiting guillotines. Natural formations of glimmering marble and jewels jutted out of the walls of the light brown rock.
Bear ran forwards, laughing. He stopped at the first cluster of gems he saw. They looked like the petals of a multi-colored flower, green, white, red, blue and black.
“These are diamonds,” Bear said, awed. “This is opal, this looks like jet-stone… that’s definitely a sapphire and the one next to it is an emerald.” He stood up straight, looking back at me, his mouth hanging open. “Holy shit, Juan, we’re rich. None of us will ever have to work again.”
“We still don’t even know how to get out of here,” I reminded him. I kept checking our backs, and I thought I had glimpsed that white, staring face with the black eyes again. But it moved like a ghost. Every time I tried to shine the light where I thought I glimpsed something, there was nothing there. I felt like I was losing my mind.
We kept walking for a few minutes. Smaller tunnels branched off the large ones periodically. We would hear soft moaning sounds and whispers coming from them. I could never pick out any words, as it came across as more of a low susurration, but it had the cadence and rhythm of speech.
“That is so creepy,” Stephanie whispered after we had passed our fourth branching tunnel. “It sounds just like voices and people whimpering, as if there were some medieval torture chamber over there.”
“It’s gotta be some natural echo from the earth,” I said. “There are sometimes subterranean rivers and waterfalls. If one was nearby, its babbling could get distorted in the tunnels and come across as whispering.” But I didn’t really believe the argument myself, even though I badly wanted to.
“Oh my God!” Bear said. He was out in front, walking ahead of us by at least ten feet. So he ended up seeing the two bodies first. He started running, kneeling down over the girls. Stephanie and I followed a few seconds later.
They looked like two high school students, still wearing their backpacks covered in pins about love and peace. The nearer of the two girls was clearly dead. Her entire body had swollen up like a tick after feeding, the skin turning green as rancid gasses bubbled under the surface. I couldn’t even tell if she once had eyes or a mouth because the flesh had expanded so much. Her bloated body pulled against the fabric of her short-sleeved T-shirt, skirt and straps of her backpack.
The other girl was a somewhat different story. At first, I thought she was dead too. I couldn’t see any breathing and she looked extremely pale with a blue tint to her lips. Bear knelt down and tried shaking her. He got no response. Then he licked the back of his hand and held it in front of her mouth and nose. After a few seconds, he looked up excitedly.
“She’s breathing, though it is very slow and shallow,” he said. “I don’t know what’s wrong with her.” Her eyes started to flutter open, and she gasped. Her fingers clenched and she licked her dry lips.
“Water,” she moaned. “Please. Water.” Bear immediately grabbed a bottle from his pack and held it up to her lips. She took small sips, pulling away and breathing hard after each one. But soon she had finished the entire bottle, then two more. The color started to return to her cheeks slightly, though that bluish cast stayed over her fingernails and lips. She motioned for us to get close, then reached into her pocket and pulled out a piece of paper.
“I’m… not going to make it out of here alive,” she said. “This was given to me by someone else. It’s the only reason we’ve made it this far.” She coughed, rolling on her side and vomiting some of the water. I saw streaks of blood mixed in, dark red like a garnet.
Bear looked at the piece of paper, frowning. He stood back up and turned to face us. Then he started reading out loud.
“The first rule to survival is this: When you see the Angel of Death, the woman with the backwards-facing head, you must cut your flesh and give an offering of blood immediately.
“The second rule is that if you hear the first trumpet blow, you must hide. Anyone who does not leave the main tunnel by the time the second trumpet blows will know undying agony.
“The third rule is that if you see dark silhouettes coming down the corridors, shadows in the shapes of men and beasts, you must close your eyes and count to thirty. They are eaters of souls, and will suck your soul out of your eyes if you give them the chance, yet they will pass if not fed.
“The fourth rule is that, if you encounter anyone with the Mark of Cain, you must kill them immediately. You will know the Mark of Cain when you see it- it is a most hideous thing.
“The fifth rule is that if you see the ruler of the bottomless pit, whose name is Abaddon, you must not look at his face.”
We all stood in silence for a long moment. I felt the strong urge to laugh. Then I looked down at the swollen body of the dead girl and immediately changed my mind.
The blonde girl yanked her backpack off, gasping and spitting blood constantly. She reached around in the bag, frantically looking for something. With a triumphant smile across her pretty face, she yanked it out and handed it to me.
I took the ancient leather-bound Bible. It looked like it had some traces of a white, shining crystal smeared across its cover. I opened the cover and saw someone had written in spiky, copperplate handwriting, “Property of Smiley.”
A bookmark hung out of the back of the text. I opened it up and gasped. The “bookmark” was actually a tiny, mummified pinkie finger. It looked like someone had cut it off a small child’s hand. It smelled woodsy with a hint of pistachio, cinnamon and sulfur. I have never smelled anything quite like a mummified body part.
“Oh… my… God!” Stephanie cried, putting her hands above her mouth. “Is that a child’s finger?!” The girl didn’t answer. She had collapsed on her stomach now, and she looked like she was rapidly worsening.
“Who are you? How did you two get here? Why do you have someone’s finger?” I asked. The girl shook her head.
“No time for all that,” she said. “I got a glancing blow of the poison. A very small dose, but it’s doing its work nonetheless. I can feel it writhing like snakes through my blood…” She closed her eyes for a long moment, breathing slow. Then she fixed her unsteady, watery eyes on us again.
“My name is Isabella, though. I’ll tell you that we came here by accident, exploring underground tunnels with my Rainbow Family. We got lost, and the tunnels started changing…” A shriek echoed from further down the main tunnel, cutting her off.
Isabella’s eyes flew wide open, bright spots of red showing on her pale face. She began hyperventilating.
“They’re coming! They’re coming back!” she cried. “Oh God, help me!” I saw a shape far away, like a galloping horse. My mind couldn’t comprehend what I was seeing for a moment. It looked totally alien, something not from this world. There was a sound like helicopter blades slicing through the air, jarring and rhythmic.
As it got closer, I saw a bizarre and monstrous creature. It looked almost like a giant flying scorpion. It was about the size of a Great Dane. Its legs writhed and skittered, like massive alien eyelashes.
I saw its stinger dripping clear, lethal venom, as if it were salivating through its tail. Its spiky wings looked like those of a dragonfly’s, blurring in a sea of motion as they propelled it forward. It was, in reality, the face that affected me most, however.
It had a human face, complete with changing expressions. It had no hair on its body, but even without eyebrows, I could see the scowl of bloodlust and fury. The eyes had a filmy look, as if covered in cataracts. The pupils looked faded behind the veil, the irises a muddy gray. Bristling spikes stood out the top of its head, black, pushed-back quills with barbs on the end. Overall, the creature was one of the most instinctually repugnant and frightening creatures I had ever seen.
Bear and Stephanie stood there, their mouths opened, just staring. Isabella tried to crawl away. She had thrown her backpack to the side.
“Nooo,” she moaned, “noooo.”
“Bear!” I cried. “Shoot it! Shoot the goddamned thing! What are you waiting for?!” He looked like a man waking up from a nightmare for a moment, his eyes moving quickly around before focusing on me. Then a smile broke out on his face.
With the creature only a few steps away, I thought we were all dead. But in a blur, Bear yanked the giant black pistol from its holster. With a booming echo like a shout from God, he fired at the abomination’s eerily human face.
The head exploded in a fountain of bone splinters and bright-blue blood. Its wings continued to pound the air crazily, and the body continued coming at us for a few more feet. Then it crashed to the ground, sliding, its stinger and tail still striking out at the air. I jumped back and saw Bear and Stephanie do the same.
It landed on top of Isabella, soaking her in its blood. She screamed. The stinger continued to drip clear poison from its wicked-looking barb. I saw drops of it sliding off the creature’s body and onto Isabella’s skin.
“It burns, it burns!” she cried, trying to wipe away the poison. But she was on her stomach, and with the creature pinning her down, she couldn’t reach. Like some ancient Chinese water torture, the drops continued to fall, searing and lethal.
“I need help guys!” Bear said as he tried to lift the heavy creature off Isabella. Stephanie and I went around, giving the stinger and poison a wide berth. I reached under its body. It felt slimy, cold and just revolting. It was like the texture of drowned earthworms after a summer rain. As I pushed, I felt a sogginess in its skin, and blue blood the color of antifreeze soaked my hands. I wanted to pull away. I felt soiled. I wanted to take a long shower and wipe the filth of this creature off me.
The body started to lift. With a grunt, the three of us pushed it off Isabella. I looked down at her and realized it was too late.
Her eyes rolled back in her head, showing only the whites. Her legs began to kick violently, her fingers spasming as her arms jumped and danced. She began to make a choked, gasping sound.
Then her skin started to turn a sickly, cancerous green. Her whole body began to swell before our eyes. She gave a death gasp and stopped kicking, finally falling limp.
***
As we left the corpses behind, still shaken, Bear looked at the Bible Isabella had given us.
“Juan, why do you think there’s a human finger in here?” Stephanie asked, still repulsed by it. “Is that some sort of occult thing? Maybe witchcraft?” I shrugged. I knew a lot more about history and books than either Bear or Stephanie. They almost never read, while I read constantly.
“Fingers have been used in occult rituals for thousands of years. In the ancient Buddhist scriptures, a madman and extremely talented warrior used to go around killing random people and taking their fingers for a necklace. They called him ‘Angulimala’, or ‘Finger-necklace’. There may be some relation to worship of Kali, the goddess of destruction. He ended up converting to Buddhism, renouncing violence and becoming enlightened, though.
“In modern rituals, witchcraft still uses severed fingers. Fingers represent dexterity, touch and manipulation of far-away objects. Cutting off a finger also symbolically represents a cutting of ties in an occult ritual.” I shrugged.
“Well, thank you for that enlightening information, Chatbot,” Stephanie said jokingly. “You remind me of those AI robots where you can ask them any random question and they come up with an answer.”
“Hey, don’t shit on me just because I actually do research,” I said, smiling. “Speaking of research, what page of the Bible is the finger marking? It may be important. Those girls had two things, after all: the list of rules and the Bible. Isabella obviously considered them important, because those were the only two things she singled out to give to us while she was dying.” Bear opened the Bible to the page with the finger. He looked down, frowning.
“It’s Revelation 9,” he said, then he began reading aloud as we all took a break, passing around water and peanut butter crackers.
“And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
“And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
“And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
“And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
“And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
“And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.” He stopped reading, his voice reverberating eerily down the stone corridor, bouncing off of priceless gems and hard sandstone.
“So that thing we killed was a locust?” Stephanie asked. “It looked a lot more like a scorpion to me.”
“It doesn’t really matter; it’s neither a scorpion nor a locust,” I said. “It’s clearly a different species from either. Perhaps it’s lived down here for millions of years, hunting in the dark. But it just makes it all the more important to find a way out of here as soon as possible. There could be thousands of those things down here. Millions, maybe. I mean, really, who knows how big this place is?” Sighing, we got up and continued looking for a way out.
Ahead, I saw a faded sign. It looked made out of pure silver, without a sign of rust anywhere. But the letters had nearly disappeared over the many years it had clearly stood here.
When we got close, I brought my light right up to it and tried to make it out. After a few seconds, I realized it was a sign for a town.
“Bloodstone. Population: 144,000,” it read.
Part 2
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Back in 2012, I believe I stopped the Apocalypse.
I remember staring down at the endless hole in the desert with wonder and awe. It seemed to go on forever. A life-long friend of mine named Bear stood by my side. He scanned the ground and found a large, smooth rock. It must’ve weighed at least sixty pounds. He rolled it over to the edge of the seemingly infinite void and let it drop.
I heard the stone clatter against the walls, smashing against one side and releasing a rush of small pebbles and clods of dirt. They soared downwards with the rock, reminding me of the sands in an eternal hourglass.
“Look, there’s stairs,” Bear’s girlfriend Stephanie said, pointing a freshly-painted red nail at the steps. They looked hewn from solid rock and spiraled down into the darkness far below. Stephanie tilted her head slightly to the side, moving locks of dirty blonde hair away from her eyes. Her appearance reminded me of Emma Stone, and though nearly twenty-five, she still looked like a teenager.
We stood in the middle of Death Valley. The sun sizzled overhead, sending out blinding light that reflected off the sands. Rippling mirages rose off the burning hot ground. Dunes surrounded us, looking as dead and lifeless as an alien planet.
I looked up at the light blue sky and didn’t see a single cloud. It must’ve been 100 degrees out. Rivulets of sweat trickled down from my hair and forehead, stinging my eyes. I wiped it away, looking back down the hole. I kept expecting this aberration of a pit to evaporate like some sort of bizarre optical illusion, yet there it still stood, a large circle about thirty feet across with ancient granite steps. And, of course, the steps had no railings. They looked fairly narrow, maybe a couple feet across.
Well, I considered that narrow, considering the thousands of feet of empty space I would fall through if I slipped. I thought about how the drop would feel, screaming for minutes and knowing I was about to die, the ground coming up to meet me, the air roaring like a tornado in my ears. I shuddered. The mental image seemed far too vivid.
I glanced at my two friends. Bear was casually smoking a cigarette, raising his tattooed hand. I looked at the tattoo- a reptilian, slitted eye surrounded by the golden spiral.
He stood much taller than me and, having done physical labor his entire life, he also had a thick covering of muscle. He was a metal-head and urban explorer, and about 90% of his body was covered in tattoos. Stephanie and he made an unusual pair, she with her straight-edge, valley girl looks, and Bear looking like he just climbed out of a mosh pit at a Deicide show.
He flicked the half-smoked butt into the pit, smoothing his long black hair with his hands. I watched the red light of the ember streak across the darkness and disappear into the endless shadows waiting below.
“Do you think anyone else knows about this?” I asked. Bear had a sly grin across his scruffy face. His blue eyes flashed with amusement. He put his arm around Stephanie.
“Well, if no one has, maybe we can make money off of it,” he said. Stephanie smiled faintly at that. “I’ve heard of people who discovered caves making money off giving tours. Maybe we can buy this crappy little plot of land out here!”
“This might be state land,” I said. “Actually, it might even be federal. I’m not sure where the borders of the national park end. Not like anyone would be going around labeling borders out here.” I waved my hand lethargically at the dead, sunburnt desert all around us. Absolutely no one lived out here, except maybe the secret mutant descendants of the Manson Family.
“Regardless, we should go explore it,” Stephanie said. “If we’re going to claim we discovered some new wonder of the world, we should be able to tell people what’s in it.”
“Yeah, and what if we get lost and starve to death down there?” I asked. “There’s no cell service out here. No one would ever find our bodies. We would just disappear into thin air. We can’t even call anyone to let them know where we are.”
“That’s part of the adventure!” Stephanie said, laughing. “You weren’t complaining when you dragged us all to that abandoned mental asylum and took us to the underground tunnels.”
“I’m with Stephanie,” Bear said, gesticulating crazily with his hands. “I want to go explore. I think it would be awesome to have a cave system named after us. We still have flashlights and plenty of food and water in the car. I have lighters and knives, cigarettes and booze, hell, even my pistol. Not like I think we’ll need it, unless there’s rattlesnakes down there that we need to shoot.” In hindsight, it was amazing just how wrong he was.
***
We each had a backpack filled with goods. Since we had been traveling across California and camping, seeing every national park possible, we had plenty of extra supplies. In fact, the issue became the amount of weight each of us could carry. I had them fill the backpacks with as much food and water as possible, leaving only room for ammunition, jackets and some extra clothes.
“You act like we’re going to be down there for the next year,” Stephanie complained, rolling her eyes as she hefted the heavy backpack around her shoulder with a soft grunt. “Alright, let’s do this! I am so excited right now. I feel like Bilbo Baggins must’ve when he walked out his front door with Gandalf.” Bear grinned like a madman, lighting up another cigarette. Without a word or a moment of hesitation, he put his backpack on and jumped down to the first step, a drop of about five feet. My stomach did flips just watching him. He apparently had no fear of heights at all.
As I looked down on Bear, it struck me how perfect the circular formation of the pit was. It almost looked man-made or somehow unnatural. Nature rarely works in straight lines and perfect circles, after all.
Stephanie went next, lowering herself carefully from the edge and hanging down by her arms until her feet were securely on the step. Unlike Bear, who at times I thought might be slightly insane, she did not simply jump onto the stone.
I edged closer to the pit, looking down. A sense of vertigo overtook me. The eternal blackness of the void seemed like a dilated pupil, a staring eye. I felt watched from below.
But I was not going to look like a chickenshit in front of my friends. They were both clearly excited, especially Bear, who started hopping from one foot to another, anxiously looking up at me and waving me on. He reminded me of a puppy excited about going on a walk. They had already started descending and stood a few dozen feet below the first step.
With a thudding heart, I followed Stephanie’s example, slowly lowering myself down from the ledge onto the first step. Once secure, I looked down.
The circling stairs almost seemed like a slit-open conch shell, the swirling golden spiral extending into forever. My friends looked so small standing on those unceasing steps, and for a moment, my intuition screamed at me, “Get out! Get out!”
But instead, I took a deep breath and started the descent into the bottomless pit.
***
We traveled for hours. I lost track of time. All of our phones stopped working, and even though I had just charged mine, the screen simply went black. Stephanie’s watch stopped ticking after a few minutes descending. I didn’t know if there was some kind of magnetism in the pit that disabled electronic devices, but regardless, we no longer had any way to tell time.
“God, how long has it been?” Stephanie asked after our fifth break. We sat on the steps, our headlamps sending eerie bouncing shadows all around us. A few of the steps nearby had thin, jagged cracks running through the stone, branching like lightning bolts. I wondered if they would crumble under our feet as we passed.
“It feels like at least six or seven hours,” Bear said, no longer as excited as he was at the start. Part of it was undoubtedly fatigue, which we all felt. I had a creeping suspicion we had made a colossal mistake by coming down here. Bear still had a sense of determination, however, and he wanted to keep going. “How far down do you think we are?” No one answered. The air felt oppressive and extremely heavy.
“What do you want to do if we don’t find anything in the next hour or so?” I asked. “I mean, are we just going to keep going down forever? We should make a plan to turn around at a certain point.”
“Oh man, give me a break,” Bear said, rolling his eyes. “What in the hell do you have to do today? You act like this isn’t the coolest thing we’ve found on this trip. We should keep going down until we find something, or until we need to turn around because we’re running low on water and food. This is probably a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, man.” I sighed. My legs ached and my feet screamed at me. I could feel the blisters rising on my toes. We rose and started descending again.
It was then that we heard a sound like a lion roaring echoing up from far below. It sounded predatory and animalistic but magnified to a deafening cacophony like an exploding hydrogen bomb. The stairs began to shake. Falling streams of dust and pebbles streamed down all around us. I tried to scream but I didn’t know if I actually was, because all I could hear was that demonic roar.
I clung to the wall of the pit as the sound started to fade and then rapidly died down to nothing. Within a few seconds, it had passed. I looked at Bear and Stephanie. They looked pale and shaken in the bright LED lights of the headlamp.
“Jesus Christ,” Bear said, his hands trembling as he reached into his pocket for his pack of cigarettes. “I thought I was going to die for a few seconds there.” He had succinctly expressed all of our thoughts, I felt.
“We can’t keep going down,” I said. “This is insane. What if that was an earthquake? What if there’s more aftershocks coming? We should start heading back up now. I’m not dying here.” Stephanie and Bear nodded, agreeing without any argument. Even Bear, who was normally fearless, seemed to have lost all of his enthusiasm for this adventure.
But when we turned and shone our headlamps up, I saw the stairs a few hundred feet above us had collapsed during the bone-rattling explosion of sound. About thirty feet of steps had simply vanished, crumbling into the void. I suddenly felt very much less secure standing there. I wondered how structurally sound the step I stood on really was. My heart felt like it would beat right out of my chest.
“Well, I guess the only way out is forwards,” Stephanie whispered in a frightened voice. “Maybe this cave or whatever it is has branching tunnels that lead back up. Something this massive has to have more than one way in and out.” I didn’t really agree with her, however. This pit was not a natural cave system as far as I could tell. We had no idea if other paths led out.
We kept descending. I clung close to the wall in case that ear-splitting cacophony started again. I wondered what had made it. Perhaps the echoes of shifting tectonic plates amplified as they rose up the pit and just sounded like a predator’s thundering cry.
Far below, my headlamp ran over an aberration in the smooth golden spiral of the endless steps. I saw a massive archway, at least ten feet tall. Its sides met in a point at the top, forming an upside-down curving V.
Bear and Stephanie saw it at the same time as I did. Their eyes widened in surprise and delight. But a sense of fear gripped me when I saw the archway. Its architecture looked alien. As we got closer, I saw it glistened like obsidian. Gleaming black rainbows ran over its length when our lights touched it.
“Oh, thank God!” Stephanie cried. Bear ran ahead, sprinting down the steps, like a man dying of dehydration running towards water.
“Hey, wait up!” I called, feeling suddenly very vulnerable. I looked down the stairs. Far below me, I saw a thin crack that ran down the wall of the pit for hundreds of feet. I caught a glimpse of a face peeking out of it.
The creature had bone-white skin and pure black eyes. Its features seemed a combination of human and demon. Its insane rictus grin showed many sharp, long teeth. Within a fraction of a second, though, it disappeared into the crack, and I wondered whether I had really seen it. Perhaps all the darkness had caused me to start hallucinating. I knew that prolonged sensory deprivation could cause hallucinations and potentially bizarre experiences, having tried sensory deprivation tanks both sober and after eating magic mushrooms.
Stephanie and Bear stood in front of the obsidian arch, peering down a massive stone tunnel. The ceiling towered thirty feet overhead. Sharp stalactites hung over our heads like waiting guillotines. Natural formations of glimmering marble and jewels jutted out of the walls of the light brown rock.
Bear ran forwards, laughing. He stopped at the first cluster of gems he saw. They looked like the petals of a multi-colored flower, green, white, red, blue and black.
“These are diamonds,” Bear said, awed. “This is opal, this looks like jet-stone… that’s definitely a sapphire and the one next to it is an emerald.” He stood up straight, looking back at me, his mouth hanging open. “Holy shit, Juan, we’re rich. None of us will ever have to work again.”
“We still don’t even know how to get out of here,” I reminded him. I kept checking our backs, and I thought I had glimpsed that white, staring face with the black eyes again. But it moved like a ghost. Every time I tried to shine the light where I thought I glimpsed something, there was nothing there. I felt like I was losing my mind.
We kept walking for a few minutes. Smaller tunnels branched off the large ones periodically. We would hear soft moaning sounds and whispers coming from them. I could never pick out any words, as it came across as more of a low susurration, but it had the cadence and rhythm of speech.
“That is so creepy,” Stephanie whispered after we had passed our fourth branching tunnel. “It sounds just like voices and people whimpering, as if there were some medieval torture chamber over there.”
“It’s gotta be some natural echo from the earth,” I said. “There are sometimes subterranean rivers and waterfalls. If one was nearby, its babbling could get distorted in the tunnels and come across as whispering.” But I didn’t really believe the argument myself, even though I badly wanted to.
“Oh my God!” Bear said. He was out in front, walking ahead of us by at least ten feet. So he ended up seeing the two bodies first. He started running, kneeling down over the girls. Stephanie and I followed a few seconds later.
They looked like two high school students, still wearing their backpacks covered in pins about love and peace. The nearer of the two girls was clearly dead. Her entire body had swollen up like a tick after feeding, the skin turning green as rancid gasses bubbled under the surface. I couldn’t even tell if she once had eyes or a mouth because the flesh had expanded so much. Her bloated body pulled against the fabric of her short-sleeved T-shirt, skirt and straps of her backpack.
The other girl was a somewhat different story. At first, I thought she was dead too. I couldn’t see any breathing and she looked extremely pale with a blue tint to her lips. Bear knelt down and tried shaking her. He got no response. Then he licked the back of his hand and held it in front of her mouth and nose. After a few seconds, he looked up excitedly.
“She’s breathing, though it is very slow and shallow,” he said. “I don’t know what’s wrong with her.” Her eyes started to flutter open, and she gasped. Her fingers clenched and she licked her dry lips.
“Water,” she moaned. “Please. Water.” Bear immediately grabbed a bottle from his pack and held it up to her lips. She took small sips, pulling away and breathing hard after each one. But soon she had finished the entire bottle, then two more. The color started to return to her cheeks slightly, though that bluish cast stayed over her fingernails and lips. She motioned for us to get close, then reached into her pocket and pulled out a piece of paper.
“I’m… not going to make it out of here alive,” she said. “This was given to me by someone else. It’s the only reason we’ve made it this far.” She coughed, rolling on her side and vomiting some of the water. I saw streaks of blood mixed in, dark red like a garnet.
Bear looked at the piece of paper, frowning. He stood back up and turned to face us. Then he started reading out loud.
“The first rule to survival is this: When you see the Angel of Death, the woman with the backwards-facing head, you must cut your flesh and give an offering of blood immediately.
“The second rule is that if you hear the first trumpet blow, you must hide. Anyone who does not leave the main tunnel by the time the second trumpet blows will know undying agony.
“The third rule is that if you see dark silhouettes coming down the corridors, shadows in the shapes of men and beasts, you must close your eyes and count to thirty. They are eaters of souls, and will suck your soul out of your eyes if you give them the chance, yet they will pass if not fed.
“The fourth rule is that, if you encounter anyone with the Mark of Cain, you must kill them immediately. You will know the Mark of Cain when you see it- it is a most hideous thing.
“The fifth rule is that if you see the ruler of the bottomless pit, whose name is Abaddon, you must not look at his face.”
We all stood in silence for a long moment. I felt the strong urge to laugh. Then I looked down at the swollen body of the dead girl and immediately changed my mind.
The blonde girl yanked her backpack off, gasping and spitting blood constantly. She reached around in the bag, frantically looking for something. With a triumphant smile across her pretty face, she yanked it out and handed it to me.
I took the ancient leather-bound Bible. It looked like it had some traces of a white, shining crystal smeared across its cover. I opened the cover and saw someone had written in spiky, copperplate handwriting, “Property of Smiley.”
A bookmark hung out of the back of the text. I opened it up and gasped. The “bookmark” was actually a tiny, mummified pinkie finger. It looked like someone had cut it off a small child’s hand. It smelled woodsy with a hint of pistachio, cinnamon and sulfur. I have never smelled anything quite like a mummified body part.
“Oh… my… God!” Stephanie cried, putting her hands above her mouth. “Is that a child’s finger?!” The girl didn’t answer. She had collapsed on her stomach now, and she looked like she was rapidly worsening.
“Who are you? How did you two get here? Why do you have someone’s finger?” I asked. The girl shook her head.
“No time for all that,” she said. “I got a glancing blow of the poison. A very small dose, but it’s doing its work nonetheless. I can feel it writhing like snakes through my blood…” She closed her eyes for a long moment, breathing slow. Then she fixed her unsteady, watery eyes on us again.
“My name is Isabella, though. I’ll tell you that we came here by accident, exploring underground tunnels with my Rainbow Family. We got lost, and the tunnels started changing…” A shriek echoed from further down the main tunnel, cutting her off.
Isabella’s eyes flew wide open, bright spots of red showing on her pale face. She began hyperventilating.
“They’re coming! They’re coming back!” she cried. “Oh God, help me!” I saw a shape far away, like a galloping horse. My mind couldn’t comprehend what I was seeing for a moment. It looked totally alien, something not from this world. There was a sound like helicopter blades slicing through the air, jarring and rhythmic.
As it got closer, I saw a bizarre and monstrous creature. It looked almost like a giant flying scorpion. It was about the size of a Great Dane. Its legs writhed and skittered, like massive alien eyelashes.
I saw its stinger dripping clear, lethal venom, as if it were salivating through its tail. Its spiky wings looked like those of a dragonfly’s, blurring in a sea of motion as they propelled it forward. It was, in reality, the face that affected me most, however.
It had a human face, complete with changing expressions. It had no hair on its body, but even without eyebrows, I could see the scowl of bloodlust and fury. The eyes had a filmy look, as if covered in cataracts. The pupils looked faded behind the veil, the irises a muddy gray. Bristling spikes stood out the top of its head, black, pushed-back quills with barbs on the end. Overall, the creature was one of the most instinctually repugnant and frightening creatures I had ever seen.
Bear and Stephanie stood there, their mouths opened, just staring. Isabella tried to crawl away. She had thrown her backpack to the side.
“Nooo,” she moaned, “noooo.”
“Bear!” I cried. “Shoot it! Shoot the goddamned thing! What are you waiting for?!” He looked like a man waking up from a nightmare for a moment, his eyes moving quickly around before focusing on me. Then a smile broke out on his face.
With the creature only a few steps away, I thought we were all dead. But in a blur, Bear yanked the giant black pistol from its holster. With a booming echo like a shout from God, he fired at the abomination’s eerily human face.
The head exploded in a fountain of bone splinters and bright-blue blood. Its wings continued to pound the air crazily, and the body continued coming at us for a few more feet. Then it crashed to the ground, sliding, its stinger and tail still striking out at the air. I jumped back and saw Bear and Stephanie do the same.
It landed on top of Isabella, soaking her in its blood. She screamed. The stinger continued to drip clear poison from its wicked-looking barb. I saw drops of it sliding off the creature’s body and onto Isabella’s skin.
“It burns, it burns!” she cried, trying to wipe away the poison. But she was on her stomach, and with the creature pinning her down, she couldn’t reach. Like some ancient Chinese water torture, the drops continued to fall, searing and lethal.
“I need help guys!” Bear said as he tried to lift the heavy creature off Isabella. Stephanie and I went around, giving the stinger and poison a wide berth. I reached under its body. It felt slimy, cold and just revolting. It was like the texture of drowned earthworms after a summer rain. As I pushed, I felt a sogginess in its skin, and blue blood the color of antifreeze soaked my hands. I wanted to pull away. I felt soiled. I wanted to take a long shower and wipe the filth of this creature off me.
The body started to lift. With a grunt, the three of us pushed it off Isabella. I looked down at her and realized it was too late.
Her eyes rolled back in her head, showing only the whites. Her legs began to kick violently, her fingers spasming as her arms jumped and danced. She began to make a choked, gasping sound.
Then her skin started to turn a sickly, cancerous green. Her whole body began to swell before our eyes. She gave a death gasp and stopped kicking, finally falling limp.
***
As we left the corpses behind, still shaken, Bear looked at the Bible Isabella had given us.
“Juan, why do you think there’s a human finger in here?” Stephanie asked, still repulsed by it. “Is that some sort of occult thing? Maybe witchcraft?” I shrugged. I knew a lot more about history and books than either Bear or Stephanie. They almost never read, while I read constantly.
“Fingers have been used in occult rituals for thousands of years. In the ancient Buddhist scriptures, a madman and extremely talented warrior used to go around killing random people and taking their fingers for a necklace. They called him ‘Angulimala’, or ‘Finger-necklace’. There may be some relation to worship of Kali, the goddess of destruction. He ended up converting to Buddhism, renouncing violence and becoming enlightened, though.
“In modern rituals, witchcraft still uses severed fingers. Fingers represent dexterity, touch and manipulation of far-away objects. Cutting off a finger also symbolically represents a cutting of ties in an occult ritual.” I shrugged.
“Well, thank you for that enlightening information, Chatbot,” Stephanie said jokingly. “You remind me of those AI robots where you can ask them any random question and they come up with an answer.”
“Hey, don’t shit on me just because I actually do research,” I said, smiling. “Speaking of research, what page of the Bible is the finger marking? It may be important. Those girls had two things, after all: the list of rules and the Bible. Isabella obviously considered them important, because those were the only two things she singled out to give to us while she was dying.” Bear opened the Bible to the page with the finger. He looked down, frowning.
“It’s Revelation 9,” he said, then he began reading aloud as we all took a break, passing around water and peanut butter crackers.
“And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
“And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
“And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
“And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
“And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
“And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.” He stopped reading, his voice reverberating eerily down the stone corridor, bouncing off of priceless gems and hard sandstone.
“So that thing we killed was a locust?” Stephanie asked. “It looked a lot more like a scorpion to me.”
“It doesn’t really matter; it’s neither a scorpion nor a locust,” I said. “It’s clearly a different species from either. Perhaps it’s lived down here for millions of years, hunting in the dark. But it just makes it all the more important to find a way out of here as soon as possible. There could be thousands of those things down here. Millions, maybe. I mean, really, who knows how big this place is?” Sighing, we got up and continued looking for a way out.
Ahead, I saw a faded sign. It looked made out of pure silver, without a sign of rust anywhere. But the letters had nearly disappeared over the many years it had clearly stood here.
When we got close, I brought my light right up to it and tried to make it out. After a few seconds, I realized it was a sign for a town.
“Bloodstone. Population: 144,000,” it read.
Part 2
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2017

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My grandpa told me a story—a confession, really—right before he died. This was 15 years ago. I had ended up alone with him in hospice and he was lying in bed struggling to breathe.
He said he needed to say something. He and some other kids had killed a boy at summer camp. Ezekiel. He didn’t open his eyes, just held me and started talking, stopping every so often because he couldn’t catch his breath.
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Growing up, my grandpa had gone to a summer camp way up north near the Canadian border. The camp was founded by Teddy Roosevelt, people said, and nice families from Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and even Chicago sent their boys there to toughen them up.
My grandpa was 11 that summer. Ezekiel was younger, maybe 9 or 10. Ezekiel was a strange kid. He came from a farm in Minnesota and was going to camp on a scholarship. His family was deeply religious and didn’t have a telephone, though nobody knew if that was on account of their beliefs or from being poor. They weren’t Amish, but they were in the ballpark.
The camp counselors didn’t know what to do with the kid. They called him “Ezzy” and told him to tie knots and build fires, but Ezekiel would have none of that. He was probably sick of doing real chores on the farm; he definitely didn’t need toughening up. Instead he’d stay in the tent and write long letters and read his prayer book, muttering to himself like he was speaking in tongues. The camp had all kinds of Protestants and a few Catholics, but nothing like him, no faith-healers or snake-handlers. And the way he’d look at you could make your blood run cold.
Looking back at it, Ezekiel was probably afraid, out in the woods with a bunch of rich kids, so he was leaning on his faith. Not that the other kids didn’t give a shit. They bullied Ezekiel--it was fun--and it quickly got out of hand, the way it usually does when adults look the other way.
The kids pretended to lay hands on Ezekiel and yelled gibberish, hid cigarette butts in his food, stole his letters and read them aloud at campfire and wiped their asses with the pages. They did the same to his prayer book. Then one day, on a hike, some older boys took Ezekiel off the trail. It was a big pine forest, almost cold even though it was July, filled with the sound of birds and the wind. My grandpa didn't know what they did to him. He took no part, he swore to God. Whatever the older boys did, they took it too far. The rest of the day Ezekiel lay in his cot, his back to everyone else.
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The next morning was a Sunday, brilliant weather. The chapel sermon by the lake was about courageous acts of faith. My grandpa told himself that he was going to be brave, like Daniel in the lions’ den. If he saw something wrong, he would speak up. He looked over at Ezekiel, who, like usual, wasn’t listening. The kid was staring out at the lake and the ripples of blue-black water kicked up by the wind.
They had morning swim that day, always ball-numbingly cold, but there was a water slide and a diving tower on a raft and you could get used to the water after a couple minutes, stop shivering at least. The boys were doing dives off the tower. The platform was about 15 feet above the water. My grandpa was in the lake, hugging the raft and watching his friends tumble through the air and fall headfirst into the water.
To everyone’s surprise, Ezekiel was up next, tiny and awkward-looking up on the top of the tower. Everyone quieted down. He stretched his hands out in front of him, bent his knees, and—
Someone shouted something.
My grandpa didn’t catch what it was, but it knocked Ezekiel off balance. He tripped and fell off the ledge and landed face-first onto the raft. They heard his skull break, like the sound of a large egg getting cracked open under a towel, watching him stupidly as he bounced back up and into the water, then looking at the empty diving platform, at the blood on the raft, the blood already thin and runny from mixing with the lake water.
The shock passed. Then bedlam: people diving into the water, others running to the shore, whistles, screaming, water churning everywhere.
The lake was very deep here—for safer diving—and the water quickly got inky black, starting at four or five feet down.
Too much time passed.
Finally they pulled Ezekiel up and swam him to land. As they carried him out, his head fell back limply. His face was crushed in the middle, water dripping from the crown of the dead boy's head.
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It took a while to reach Ezekiel’s parents. It turned out they did have a telephone but a bad storm had knocked out the lines. They didn’t get word until late, and, roads being what they were, wouldn’t make it to the camp until the next day.
What to do until then? There was no hospital nearby, no sheriff’s office. The Lodge was the only real building on the grounds, a two-story log cabin supposedly built by pioneers with a dining hall attached. They put Ezekiel in the basement of the Lodge since it was cool and dark down there, put him out on a table so he wouldn’t have to be on the dirt floor, and put a handkerchief over his face so they wouldn’t have to look at it.
Then the thunderstorm that had been out west blew through east, a bad one with hail and pounding rain. All the tents got washed out by nightfall and everyone had to sleep in the Lodge, fifty or sixty kids in sleeping bags on the floor, all trying to fall asleep as fast as humanly possible, focusing on the sounds of the storm so their thoughts wouldn’t drift down to the basement.
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My grandpa unluckily had ended up next to the basement door. As you can imagine, he wasn’t sleeping well. Whenever he closed his eyes, he saw the blood on the raft, Ezekiel carried out from the water, his face…
BOOM.
A loud crash. My grandpa sat up. Thunder? Nobody else moved. Even the counselors, who had stayed up late on the porch talking gloomily among themselves, men barely older than the boys, were now fast asleep. He looked out alone at the sea of sleeping bodies, the crash still humming in his ears.
Then there was a thud, then another. Someone was a walking up the basement stairs, the old wooden steps creaking under his weight. He reached the top step and paused, right behind the basement door. Then he went all the way back down.
After a minute or two, he started up the stairs again. Then back down again. Eleven steps each way.
My grandpa was furious—he figured one of the boys had snuck downstairs to look at the body or mess with it, and he found his flashlight and stood up and threw the basement door open.
It was pitch black down there. Now he understood how literalness of that expression: in front of him was a darkness so complete that it felt heavy and liquid, like it would cover his hand in tar if he stuck his arm into it. He switched on his flashlight and dragged the beam down the steps, all eleven, until he reached the bottom. Nothing, no one was down there, just the circle of light from his flashlight on the basement wall opposite the stairs.
Then Ezekiel walked into view, like he was stepping into a spotlight. Except it wasn’t Ezekiel. This was his body. This was something else, pale, the handkerchief hanging off of his smashed-in face, and only one eye which saw nothing at all.
My grandpa slammed the door shut. No one else had woken up. A deep, almost drugged sleep hung over the room. He felt so crazed with fear that he thought he might pass out.
The bottom step creaked. Then the next, and soon it reached the top and grew still, but only for a second. The doorknob turned, and the door inched open.
My grandpa stepped back, whimpering, when an idea flashed through his mind: the prayer book. He ran to Ezekiel’s bag nearby and opened it and grabbed the book, degraded from its recent mistreatment, and went back to the door, which was now wide open. Ezekiel was on the top step. He looked almost normal in the near complete dark, when the flashlight wasn't on him, like any other kid who had stepped into a shadow.
Ezekiel grabbed the book from my grandpa, seeming to weigh it in his hands. To think something over. Then he turned and walked back downstairs.
My grandpa shut the door and locked it, waited. Nothing happened. Silence.
Then he grabbed his sleeping bag and brought it to the opposite side of the room, by the front door where it was wet from the storm. He lay in a puddle and waited for daylight.
Ezekiel’s parents came during breakfast. Their clothes were normal. His mother couldn't speak, but his father managed to thank them for letting Ezekiel rest with his prayer book the night before. If they noticed the book’s condition, they didn’t say anything. Then they drove off with their boy and that was it. No lawsuit or anything. Different times.
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***
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Once he finished, my grandpa stared up at the hospice ceiling. He didn’t seem relieved for having told me. Then he looked pver, is dark blue eyes sunken deeply into his face.
“I hear him,” he said. “When it’s quiet. Late at night. I hear him on the stairs. After we had Richard, it started. Got worse as I got older.
“I’m sorry,” he said.
“Now I’m here, and I hear him all the time.”
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***
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My grandpa died 15 years ago. For a long time I forgot about what he said. No memory at all. It’s weird, I know, but you never want to remember your family members like they were at the very end. It’s not them. They’ve already left the building and it’s some animal dying there instead.
I recently became a father. We’re all good. Mom’s healthy. Baby’s healthy and beautiful. We’re hardly sleeping as we figure out how to take care of this little human. A lot of time spent in a dark quiet house. Well, sometimes quiet.
The things is, I’m hearing things. I’m embarrassed to admit it. When it does get quiet, and I’m the only one awake, I sometimes hear footsteps on the basement stairs. I hear the steps squeak, and they stop once I tune in, like it knows I’m listening.
Then it starts up again. Not always. But often.
And when I’m falling asleep in bed, I get the feeling we’re not alone. It’s the same feeling I had when I was with my grandpa in hospice—that someone was under the bed.
I’m freaked out, honestly. I don’t know what else to do but write this up. I don’t want to pull anyone else into this mess. But I can’t live alone all my life with it either.
I don’t know what else to do. I’m sorry.

I need some help coming up with new Passover trivia questions.
For the past few years at my Passover seders, I have distributed questions to each member of the seder to bring up during relevant parts of the night. The questions range from real Passover trivia to silly and tongue in cheek questions and answers. The purpose is to keep everyone engaged regardless of their knowledge or interest in the seder.
However, people are starting to remember the answers and I am having trouble coming up with new questions this year. Below are all the questions I have collected over the years. Can you help me come up with some new ones?
Also, if you see any inaccuracies, let me know. Note that some questions have been worded to be technically correct even if they aren’t practically correct.

1. TRUE OR FALSE: Abraham Lincoln was assassinated during Passover. (True)
2. TRUE OR FALSE: The Coca-Cola Company has its plants switch to cane sugar instead of corn syrup in some batches to make the beverage kosher for Passover. (True)
3. TRUE OR FALSE: Elvis Presley missed his first opportunity to perform on live TV when his agent, David Merenstein, missed the call due to him being at a Passover seder. (False)
4. TRUE OR FALSE: The Passover seder must be completed by midnight. (False)
5. TRUE OR FALSE: In 2010, the world’s largest matzah ball, which weighed 426 pounds, was made for New York’s Jewish Food Festival. (True)
6. TRUE OR FALSE: There is a second Passover observed exactly one month after the beginning of Passover. (True)
7. TRUE OR FALSE: In order to be certified Kosher for Passover, a Lamb must be circumcised at birth. (False)
8. TRUE OR FALSE: The firstborn of each family is commanded not to work on the day before Passover begins. (False)
9. MULTIPLE CHOICE: The number of days Passover is observed is different inside and outside of Israel. That difference is: (One Day)
   1. Two Days
   2. Zero Days
   3. One Day
   4. 12 Hours
10. TRUE OR FALSE: Prior to 2013, cigarettes were not kosher for Passover. (True)
11. TRUE OR FALSE: Some communities forgo the tradition of Eliyahu Hanavi due to its glorification of alcoholism. (False)
12. TRUE OR FALSE: Most halachic authorities agree that one would have to do 8 separate Seders if done on the International Space Station. (False)
13. MULTIPLE CHOICE: What are the middle days of Passover called? (Chol HaMoed (חֹל הַמּוֹעֵד))
    1. Aseret Yemei Teshuvah (עֲשֶׂרֶת יְמֵי תְּשׁוּבָה)
    2. Yamay HaPesach (יְמֵי הַפֶּסַח)
    3. Yom Ha’atzmaut (יוֹם הָעַצְמָאוּת)
    4. Chol HaMoed (חֹל הַמּוֹעֵד)
14. TRUE OR FALSE: In 1973, the Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan is reported to have shouted, “Manischewitz!” while walking on the Moon. (False, but it has been reported as true)
15. TRUE OR FALSE: According to a New York Times study conducted from 2002 until 2014, the average Jew gains almost 6 and a half pounds over the week of Passover. (False)
16. TRUE OR FALSE: While wandering in the desert, Israelites routinely carried dolphin skin with them for some reason. (True)
17. TRUE OR FALSE: In 2008, a man named Joey Chestnut ate 78 matzah balls in 8 minutes. (True)
18. TRUE OR FALSE: Few people know that William Faulkner’s seminal classic “As I Lay Dying” is actually about his experience attending a Passover Seder at the home of his friend Shmuel Yanklowitz. (False)
19. TRUE OR FALSE: To force Israeli restaurants to comply with Passover, the Israeli government conducted raids to make sure they were not selling leavened bread. (True)
20. TRUE OR FALSE: Some Jews put the dust of real bricks in their charoset. (True)
21. TRUE OR FALSE: In Australia, the Seder is performed in the opposite order than we do in the United States. (False)
22. TRUE OR FALSE: The splitting of the Red Sea precipitated a minor extinction event, which can be clearly seen in the fossil record. (False)
23. TRUE OR FALSE: In 2010, when Barack Obama hosted a Seder at the White House, Eminem performed the four questions in the form of a rap battle, which later become the inspiration for the musical “Hamilton.” (false)
24. TRUE OR FALSE: Some Jews celebrate an extra holiday on the night that Passover ends where they eat leavened flat bread instead of unleavened flat bread. (True, Mimouna)
25. TRUE OR FALSE: The Torah says Moses and the son of Pharaoh (who would later become Pharaoh himself) were raised together as brothers. (False)
26. MULTIPLE CHOICE: What is the primary reason that Passover cannot currently be celebrated on Mars? (There are no Jews on Mars.)
    1. Mars has two moons (Phobos and Deimos) so we don’t know which to use to know which day Passover would fall on.
    2. It is difficult to make brisket on Mars.
    3. There are no Jews on Mars.
27. TRUE OR FALSE: Some Reform Jewish communities practice a tradition known as the “Matzah Shuffle” where after the meal is concluded, instead of reciting the Birkat Hamazon, everyone at the Seder would hold a piece of matzah and dances around the table while singing the special Matzah Shuffle song. (False)
28. TRUE OR FALSE: Despite matzah balls being synonymous with Passover, some Jews believe you cannot get Matzah wet and there are actually not kosher for Passover. These Jews go as far as to farm their own wheat in the desert to ensure that there is no moisture in the flour. (True)
29. MULTIPLE CHOICE: The second night of Passover marks the start of the countdown to which holiday? (Shavuot)
    1. The end of Passover
    2. Lag BaOmer
    3. Shavuot
    4. Rosh Chodesh
30. TRUE OR FALSE: The traditional Passover dish of matzo ball soup was invented in the early 1700s by the Jewish chef Solomon Ballstein. (False)
31. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Which president was the first to both host and attend a Passover Seder at the White House? (Barak Obama)
    1. Ronald Reagan
    2. Bill Clinton
    3. Barak Obama
    4. Donald Trump
32. TRUE OR FALSE: Shmurah Matzah is made from a special kind of wheat that can only be grown in Israel and must be harvested by hand under the supervision of rabbis. (False)
33. TRUE OR FALSE: 1 zuz is about worth about $100, meaning the kid in Chad Gadya is worth around $200. (False)
34. TRUE OR FALSE: Did you know that NASA has used matzah ball technology to help develop safer airbags? In the 1980s, NASA was looking for a way to make airbags that could inflate quickly and uniformly. They discovered that the solution was to use a technique called “crumbing” that involves breaking up the solid foam into small pieces, similar to how matzah ball dough is crumbled before being formed into balls.
35. NASA scientists found that by crumbing the foam, they could create airbags that inflated quicker and more evenly, reducing the risk of injury to passengers in a car crash. So next time you're enjoying a bowl of matzah ball soup, remember that the same technology that makes those fluffy balls so delicious has also been used to make car airbags safer! (False)
36. MULTIPLE CHOICE: What was the first kosher food in space? (Ilan Ramon)
    1. Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon brought five kosher meals with him on the STS-107 mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003. Some of the meals were Florentine lasagna and beef stew.
    2. On NASA's Gemini 3 mission in 1965, Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper smuggled a corned beef sandwich and some matzah aboard the spacecraft that he had purchased from a delicatessen in Florida. While the sandwich was not kosher, the matzah was, making it the first kosher food to be consumed in space.
    3. Astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman arranged to have challah specially prepared and certified as kosher by a rabbi before the mission to bring on the space shuttle Challenger in 1983.
37. TRUE OR FALSE: A lesser-known reason why we hide the Afikomen during the Seder is to symbolize the hiding of Moses in the Nile and the Jewish people's struggle for freedom. The Afikomen represents the hidden and oppressed state of the Jewish people, just as Moses was hidden and oppressed as a baby. By finding the Afikomen, the children are symbolically freeing Moses from his hiding place in the Nile and reclaiming their own freedom from oppression. (False)
38. MULTIPLE CHOICE: The first-born son is supposed to fast the day before Passover while the youngest child traditionally recites the Four Questions. What is a responsibility that rabbinical groups discussed giving to the middle child during the seder? (Absolutely nothing.)
    1. Hiding the afikomen.
    2. Helping people wash their hands.
    3. Setting the table.
    4. Leading the group in B’tzeit Yisrael.
    5. Absolutely nothing.
39. TRUE OR FALSE: You are supposed to bring the Paschal lamb home and live with it for four days before slaughtering it. (True)
40. TRUE OR FALSE: Despite being commanded to eat it during Passover, matzah is the closest thing you can get to chametz without actually having chametz. (True)
41. MULTIPLE CHOICE: What does the name “Moses” mean? (Drawn from the water.)
    1. Shortened version of “meshitza,” an obscure Hebrew word for a bridge between the human and divine realms.
    2. One who splits water.
    3. In Aramaic, it translates to "master of the bullrushes," a title denoting exceptional basket-weaving skills.
    4. Drawn from the water.
    5. Wrangler of the reeds.
42. MULTIPLE CHOICE: What makes the Wicked Son wicked? (He is dismissive and excludes himself.)
    1. He is dismissive and excludes himself.
    2. He asks a question that challenges the traditions of the Seder.
    3. He insists on eating pizza with a fork and knife, he wears socks with sandals, and he never rewinds his VHS tapes before returning them to the video store.
    4. He shows disrespect by interrupting the seder to ask his own questions.
43. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Why is Moses barely mentioned in the Haggadah? (Focus on God)
    1. The Haggadah emerged in opposition to a Samaritan tradition that excessively emphasized Moses as a demigod-like figure. By downplaying Moses, the Rabbis aimed to promote a purer form of monotheism.
    2. Some believe Moses himself wrote the first Haggadah and, in his characteristic modesty, omitted his own significant role in the story.
    3. The Haggadah focuses on encouraging questions, discussion, and participation rather than a straight historical account. It also focuses on the actions of God and including Moses may downplay God's role.
    4. Moses isn't mentioned in the Haggadah because he was busy parting the Red Sea and couldn't make it to the Haggadah recording session.
44. Why do some families place an orange on their seder plate? (In recognition of gay and lesbian Jews and those who feel marginalized in the Jewish community.)
    1. To represent Jewish women.
    2. In recognition of gay and lesbian Jews and those who feel marginalized in the Jewish community.
    3. To symbolize the spring and renewal.
    4. Represents the new year as Passover is one of the Jewish new year’s (along with Rosh Hashanah, the first of Elul, and Tu BiShvat).
45. According to the Torah, who parted the Red Sea? (God)
    1. Moses with his staff.
    2. Aaron when he waded into the water saying “Mi Chamocha”.
    3. In response to God’s command to move forward, Nachshon (נַחְשׁוֹן), the brother-in-law to Aaron, jumped into the sea as the Egyptians approached to initiate the passage through the Red Sea.
    4. God.
46. What is the name of the shabbat preceding Passover? (Shabbat Hagadol)
    1. Shabbat Yetziat Mitzrayim (The Shabbat of the Exodus)
    2. Shabbat Ha’Aviv (The Shabbat of the Spring)
    3. Shabbat Hagadol (The Great Shabbat)
    4. Shabbat Matzah (The Shabbat of Matzah)
47. Where was the earliest record of The Four Questions found? (Mishnah)
    1. Dead Sea Scrolls
    2. Mishnah
    3. The Aleppo Codex
    4. The children's section of the Library of Alexandria (it was lost, but it was definitely there at some point)
    5. The Torah
48. On the first morning of Passover, many Jewish communities recite which special prayer? (Tefilat Tal)
    1. Avinu Malkeinu
    2. Tefilat Tal (Prayer for Dew)
    3. Hallel
    4. Kol Chamira (Prayer nullifying any missed chametz)
49. What were the names of Moses’ birth parents? (Amram and Yocheved)
    1. Amram and Yocheved
    2. Nachum and Batyah
    3. Roger and Brenda
    4. Aaron and Miriam
50. What three items are used to search for and clean up chametz during bedikat chametz?
    1. Candle, broom, basket
    2. Cup, feather, siddur
    3. Candle, feather, and spoon
    4. Basket, cloth, magnifying glass
    5. Candle, feather, paper bag
    6. Imalent MS32 200,000 lumen LED flashlight, Riccar R30D Tandem Air Deluxe Vacuum, the “Titan 80-300 Cubed” transmission electron microscope

So, please contribute if you have any more and feel free to use these at your own seder.

Writings From 2022
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On Philosophy and Science
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I feel terrible on the Invega injection. I must think about what I am doing and what I am saying to the people that work for me. That is without a doubt. My only goal today, may be, just to get through this life. That would suffice, sufficiently. Yes, to some degree, I am dismayed by the fact I must propel the use of enchantment to spellbind the demon of Schopenhauer to appear at my wits end where he will somehow implore me to write better. Writing just to write. Too manic. I will know when I have written a good piece. Maybe my place isn’t to be a good writer. Maybe I’m not a candidate. It’s okay. Life goes on. Suffering exists. There is a job to be done. I am still thankful for my inner workings. My suffering is more real now than ever. I feel everything more than ever; or so it seems. I write with chaotic rage. I have my own relationship with food, as they have their own. The image of God? More like the psychology of someone who is obsessed with themselves. Writing my thoughts till I rot. Till blood is no longer pumping through my veins. For what cause? For the cause of the shipwreck all. All born into fame. The real famine that is game. Wonder lust. Wonder lost. Paid the price. To serve my ship of DNA in fortune but not fame. In poverty possibly. But not riches. Yet not rags. At least it was not all about me. It was for animals. It was for prophecy.
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An Evolutionary Perspective on Vegans for Health
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Clearly, we are living in desperate times. People dying of water poisoning isn’t the entirety of the problem. The problem can come from nutritious value as well such food intake. Animal products do not cost as much as vegetation sources. Look at fast food restaurants’ price on cheeseburgers and salads to put it simply. Just perceive on a macro-economic scale, or globally, animal products are at a very low demand, while plant sources are very high. Rightfully so, plant sources should be in high demand, and cost more, because the supply is very limited for these products. Yet, we will blame this on the corporations or people running them. This gets back to “we are doing the best we can”. It gets back to evolution. Like, how we left our meat-eating ways by killing our food, to learning how to have new food sources. Because we had to survive. Calling a physics “feud” for religion’s sake when there is theoretical evidence to say it could have been a debate. Or evolution not being made clear whether it’s a science, philosophy, or subject in and of itself. You could theorize many reasons for why we started to cook our own food, Kinetic Energy=1/2 x Mass x Velocity^2, and Energy=Mass x Light^2 both fit Newton’s third law of thermodynamics in my opinion (Force=-Force^2) not Force=Mass x Acceleration, and Charles Darwin may have been the greatest philosopher to have walked the earth, but he’ll never be credited as such so long as preachers have a say. I cannot say for sure yet, since I just started, but I am giving vegan keto a go because I think it may help me. I also started smoking organic Natural American Spirit cigarettes again to my bump up within my income from government sanctioned Section 8 vouchers every month. This is more money; I just do not have any reasons the game has to be against the rich if it doesn’t have to be. There are obvious reasons we should tax the rich, they will fall in line with why we should not procreate biological children into debt slavery. Same with biological children that will consume animal products. I have lived the stressful 40-hour work weeks, and it is near impossible to stick to your morals and beliefs. Without work I have found it much easier, at least on medication, and I was brought up with a healthy relationship with food, so it was easier to obtain once all was in place. Against religious principles in mind (Amorality), people seem to prove them more patriotically than ethically. And appeals to patriotism seldom suffice against history like the theory of evolution will. That is my main argument. Why not treat it as such? If our ability to learn is incapacitated I would argue we have very little after that.
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Notes:
Rope Theory Photoelectric Effect
What an accurate atom is…
Atom vs molecule…
Lazer goes through double glass mirror because of photoelectric effect…
Rope theory is a complete theory of physics…
Traditional theory of physics vs quantum mechanics vs Laplace and constructor theory…
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It is clear our planet has disbanded any hope of the redemption of our global economy after the demise of oil. Oil is 80% more powerful than any other form of energy, and that means combined, air, water, and sun energy will still barely touch the 20% mark even if we focus all our infrastructure on those three sources. Yes, it is a problem of food, the industrial revolution has carried humanity through. From both an evolutionary and philosophical stance, be it the atoms in our bodies or the quantum gravity around us, we see danger, and no number of soft definitions can substantially probe that wrong. Why the glimmer of hope? I would say the glimmer of hope lies in the principles, beliefs, and science we carry on into the post industrious age.
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More Notes:
Rope Theory Photoelectric Effect
What an accurate atom is…
Atom vs molecule…
Lazer goes through double glass mirror because of photoelectric effect…
Rope theory is a complete theory of physics…
Traditional theory of physics vs quantum mechanics vs Laplace and constructor theory…
Time in action can’t be measured because it is constantly in action. ---Atoms and Photons---
Eroticism vs Constructor theory…
Atoms in chaos of particle theory vs Atoms in proportion of wave theory…
Physics photons/electrons…
Lazer---double glass mirror…
Acceleration =π x Radius^2…
Type equation here…
I would like to make the assertion that as a human collective consciousness we are falling fast from what I will call at this time an enlightened scope of reality. I surmise debt slavery could be as bad as it has ever been. And yes, people moving into the bigger western civilization cities is stopping reproduction at the quickest rate in human history, due to the fact science has enabled us to be thorough in our own interconnected breeding rates. One might say, who is an anti-natalist, all is lost on the enlightened frontier. With absolute vigilance, and even a lean towards vindictiveness, it is still, and will always be, the human capacity to trivialize sentience and make its own. As the owner of sentience, we are not stewards of the planet. We are responsible caretakers. Do I believe we are doing the best we can? Typically, yes, this is what I agree with. As there are so many rudimentary problems with welfarism. We can deduce it might be a problem developing the socio-economic systems in Africa and South America because then they will have nuclear weapons, and we are unsure of that outcome. This is a very valid argument. The worst-case scenario would be nuclear war and the best case would be that these countries give up their traditional Catholic God beliefs. This isn’t too difficult to do. Many people become secular in their thinking, at least through adulthood, however, when they become old and needy, they pick religion right back up like they never left it. This is what happened to my grandfather. He always carried kind of an Einstein approach to God right into his dementia which I will say has claimed his life. Is it possible a disbelief in God can give us a better functioning brain? Probably something we will never truly know unless all the humans left on earth were atheist, since demons have played such a prevalent role in our past as societies and empires. I guess the questions should be asked. Are we just playing subjective quantitative roles in society in reducing the population? Are we deterministically intrinsically just playing out our roles? Or are we playing arbitrary selfish roles that are consequentially helping someone else do better in their life? I am by no means a pro-moralist or death philosopher; however, death plays a huge part in my philosophy, obviously from the animals in nature standpoint, the attrition rates are far too high for me to be comfortable with, and I don’t see that changing. For some reason it is hard for people to latch on to this equation, and if they claim to be anti-natalist, they are outing themselves to the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement subjective conclusion. So, is there any difference. I would say worldly and globally there must always be a fundamental difference between differentiating belief systems. That’s too obvious. Yet, the conformity to ones of another, or vice versa can be a problem to the main problem of sentience. In terms of human reproduction, we can find the illusion in ourselves that our lineage, bloodline or what have you can play an extravagant role in solving human problems if not mere reproduction for satisfactory means. This is a giant problem among enthusiasts thinking they are solving the problems of global warming. I fell into this category a little bit in the past. It is an impossible standard. On the other hand, you have conventional physics, however creative, still used as a weapon of false ingenuity. I will not use a false sense of “eternalism” that quantum mechanics is claiming to coincide with that puts all of us into subjective isolated experiments, unless of course we are playing roles in each other’s realities, then this substantiates their claim.
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More notes:
#DraftPhysics #NewtonianPhysics #EinsteinTheories…
Conventional Physics for the Rational Person (Light x Velocity Potential of Hydrogen x Radius x Momentum)…
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Physics is a language unlike any other that many do not acquaint themselves with due to the extraordinary depth of the equations we find literally representing the universe. Many, if we are lucky, get to find out what the Big Bang and “Newton’s” atom is and never return to it so long as we live. Is it not for any reason? That we so regret the physics that is cast before our eyes if math does not compute? That spirituality should supersede science. The answer for any logical person is absolutely no, the most valuable science, particle physics, should definitely have a higher range of observants, opinions, and interaction, so as to not be interpreted as sheer math problems, but defining and most of all, expanding the conscious awareness of the Physical Universe to any well noted educated mind, enveloping the dream of founder of the American Atheist Society, Madalyn Murray O'Hair for conscious peaceful community. If we were not as subservient as we are right now to sports and were more psychologically judicial in all our ways to put more money into development of more structure that could teach real, foundational unified physics than economies and businesses, sentience would be exceptionally better off. Instead of prison training camps where only elite minds get scraped up into the backlash of “manipulated advertising physics”, anyone could learn and expound theories, and much more research and intentional comradery would take place to investigate even deeper into the biological physicality and elemental physics thoughtforms and mind graphs that are everywhere in Evolution. The “talking the physical universe to death argument” obviously is not the end all be all of life seeking purpose, and sentience should still be greatly outlasted as the arbiter of the mainstream. But I believe botany can help humans do what must be done in nature to bypass emotional standpoints caring for family and property rights, in other words, the current mainstream. Just expressing the importance of Newtonian Particle physics or even more so particle “theory in” physics. Why do we need more minorities engaged in particle physics? While IQ is not so innate as it is passed down, even in the west someone with “their average” IQ may still go to war. The problem is more circumstantial than passed down. So, building infrastructure or at the very least encouraging it, in Africa and South America, and a way of teaching eliminating privilege and endorsing philosophy and debate to oppose the nature of gladiator games as we head into fierce global decision in terms of the oil crisis and how we will lockdown populations once the earth can no longer transport import/export as it may please to. This is not being debated/talked about as it should be and needs to. It will be or there will be nothing left to talk about but Anarcho-Mayhem. Wrong? People in minority driven regions like Africa or South America have many capable people to derive non-violent philosophies and most westerners have yet to enable a theory of life divorced of violence. Anti-natalism really is one of the only ways. Nuclear biological physics really is the best way to perceive the evolutionary world at your fingertips so what is the hold up? Google is an obvious factor. Also, people like Musk do not speak up fairly about social issues. We need more insight, introspection, debate, discussion, less sports, sex, music, and hypocrisy. No matter what the cost, even human life, a problem of sentience should be perceived as a problem for all. Be as it may true that so long as Catholicism exists this might not be possible. If atheism does not take the throne, how can we win? The only way to find out the way I see it is to give it your all and try no matter working or disabled. Crutches or full body cast the winter fades and the sun blazes while the weak freeze and the abominations burn. Whatever is acceptable today should always be improved upon tomorrow. Obviously not all religion is bad like Rastafarian for one or some new age religions. But many have overstayed their welcome and need to leave. Humans should take a closer look at physics and learn to understand and interpret at will what the universe is doing. Before it’s too late and to become more aware consciously, scientific in thinking and in life, to make do with resources the best, they can.
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More notes:
Improving Upon vs Disappearing Worlds…
• Consequences of Eliminating 3rd Law + Gravity…

1. Force^1=-Force^2 over time would imply superposition…
   
2. Force=Gravity (Mass^1 x Mass^2 / Radius^2) …
   
3. The imperative is there is no general relativity…
   

• Anthropics/Terror Management Theory…

1. Anthropics create our psychology (kill or be killed) …
   
2. Science cannot figure out general relativity because ontology is not practical in the physical universe…
   
3. If one thing is observed two things can be happening but for a third mechanic to be happening in that moment as well may be absurd…
   

• Unification theory proves nuclear physics…

1. Schrodinger equation − ℏ2 2m∂2Ψ(x, t) ∂x2 + U(x, t)Ψ(x, t) = iℏ∂Ψ(x, t) ∂t…
   
2. Quantum mechanics seems to be enforced…
   
3. Is free energy corrupt physics?
   

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Physics can be geometrically illustrated or precisely calculated. There should not have to be a difference if they logically exist at different rates. As if the population has dwindled down to 10 already or we are ready to take the morphine hit, and nothing else matters but death. Talk to me after you have a near death experience. Western diseases can be looked at as diseases of luxury or even statistics. Third world countries still celebrating religious passing of souls. Incredulous. Physics is a science, not a story like religion. The social commentary is overdone. Whether the particles are protons and electrons, or the wave particle duality is present before the morphine hit on the death bed will not make a difference. We are animals at best. We are theorizing. Again, if the physical disassociation exists geometrically or calculated is the same linear direction. The special relativity can be the news of the collective universe at present. General relativity cannot be proven by quantum mechanics because there is no God’s eye view to look through to view the physical universe. What is happening in the world is special relativity and what is happening in universe in relation to our position in it is general relativity. I would say measuring the speed of light is obviously not too sensical unless considering empty matter and what it theoretically could mean. You are observing the problem and giving it an abstract meaning, you are not changing it indefinitely, so to speak. You are only human. It is 1+1=2, not 2+2=5 to juxtapose 1984. Anthropics needing to disappear is an ignorance of psychology. We all are fighting to survive, through the blood of our ancestors at the very least. Another reason it cannot be God of the Gaps because even if it is Kinetic Energy instead of force the Kinetic Energy calculates the position of the particle while the force exchanges equally. Our psychologies work like KE theory, because we must label things we cannot explain. Mentally I do not have a problem with that. I would have gripes with proposing psychology is god of the gaps. Any notion towards the term for that matter when it comes to physics for lack of a better forgoing.
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Tyler Johnson
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Dedication
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I would like to dedicate this book to my treatment team for helping me out and stabilizing me on medication. Also, I would like to dedicate this book to my parents for being so supportive. And as well, Social Security because without it, none of this would be possible.
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Table of Contents
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I: Do Not God
II: Efilism
III: Extinction
IV: Sex
V: Words
VI: Collapse
VII: Philosophy
VIII: Economics
IX: Science
X: Opposition
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Forward
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My current credibility is not much college, but enough to realize it may not really be for me. I started out wanting to be a professor. And, then understanding how, that may not be formidable, I was just to be a teacher, I finally gave up on that as well. That was 10 years ago, and now the madness haunts me day and night. It only gets more progressive, as sometimes I feel stable. My first interest was psychology, until I learned that what I liked about psychology was mostly introspection which mostly led to philosophy.
Preface
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I am convincing myself that I am writing this book out of gratitude and strength, but it is more jealously and hate, for what I have not been able to achieve on social media. Fortunately, this is what it has got to be. It is my hope now. In other words, I have the time and money to do something other than what I have failed at for so long on social media, so why not try it? I don’t really care if no one reads, although maybe it would be better that way, it can still be, to me at least, like a work of art I can keep close or give to people, and maybe even sell cheaply. When I say I don’t pride myself on these matters anymore, I really mean it, and I mean they really make me nauseous, especially when you start to swing for the more anti-libertarian, very strict, very liberal, somewhat doctrine, or cult-like propaganda Efilism has shown me it can be. This can become toxic, make people dangerous for themselves or others and people can and do get hurt just from words in my experience. It happens very rarely, but it happens with the mentally sick and that is just what statistics what have you understand as facts. I do not consider anyone the leader, or Efilism to be cult-like, in writing this, although I have, in its social media presence, thought about it in those ways in the past, unfortunately. I, now, am looking at it as the philosophy of Gary Mosher, a little bit different than what I know of David Benatar’s philosophy, which is only from hearsay at the time of writing this since I have not gotten to his book, Better Never to Have Been, yet. At times this book is meant to be serious, at other times it is meant to be more of a mockup. I am by no means a professional writer, but I certainly have a passion for it. It is just, I think I will tend to veer into passive-aggressive bits of information that are dialogically placed to reach pieces of persuasion or amusement, but come off as more nihilistic, which is accurate.
Introduction
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Philosophy had its place with me, and I suppose, so did psychology, freshman year, aged 18 at Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia) that my father was well-off enough to pay for. The year was 2010 and had just graduated high school with high hopes still for college and the job market. All this would be shortened by drug experiences that would lead me to finding my inner spirituality, one might call it. I had become the college-drop out in a well-to-do town full of Christianized suburbanites. I had wanted to be a few things in college until mental illness disabled me, kept me tied to psychiatric wards and my father’s money until I was 26 and able to live off government welfare. During that time Alcoholics Anonymous was a social group, which was enduringly beneficial as well. It was around this time, being left on my own, I was able to discover efilism, antinatalism, and more about veganism. Things were not steady for another year or so and then I was able to get it together. I do not wish to implore my psychological story, but if I feel it gives the reader context, I will, thinking it is best for the philosophical discussion. Is my brain working off madness, or pure reason? You may decide for yourself. I just do not want the book to be too existentially analytical, but if it must be, it must. Right now, I am wishing I could turn off my nightly entertainment habits, or the luxuries, at least, of my entertainment, financially, would cease to exist, and be no more, for I have been listening to Socrates dialogues and they must have inspired me none the less. Now I am 30, writing this book. I do not pride myself on calling myself any of the labels anymore, as I’m not a professional, but I have before, and it helped me to get to where I am today. Again, I know it is not helpful to the philosophical dialogue to continually impress upon the reader my background, so I will try to get that out of the way now. I live a very isolated life, talking to very few people, yet still more than some, which I prefer. But the mind is a craniological mode constantly playing tricks and it is good to keep the roaring lions tamed in their cages from time to time, as not all people from the past, Socrates included are perfect to me, and not even Jesus was a god to me as he would have still had the bodily functions of any regular human, the real character who was the man, that is, and not just one the anthropomorphic interpretations of the universal Creator. I think genetically these are the best years of my life with modern science, but I do not think I have good genetics and think I must have had predispositions to some mental illness. I can still study and maintain, but again, my craniological modes are nonsense, either up or down, I am either exhausted or manic, and not ever in between, week in and week out. I just feel this would only affect me with school as I cannot work. Nothing to pass on genetically, let alone become a parent, carrying the burden thereof. I aborted one fetus in my mid-twenties, thankfully, and it is still one of the top three things that has happened in my life. The other two would have to be getting on meds and disability (as well as Section 8) in no order. If I had had the baby and not been on meds I would just be locked up full time, most likely, in a metal hospital, anyway, and one of the main reasons I am glad I did not have the baby is because I would not of been able to take care of it with my condition and figured I would have eventually had to miss my child support payments and would have been locked up that way. Which could have been immeasurably bad. That is just the truth, but of course the baby was spared a terrible upbringing as well by a couple of drug addicts, or if it was lucky, it may have been put up for adoption. I played American football mostly and was very good at it. My high school football team won back-to-back state championship games, never losing a game. During my junior year I was on a casual visit to West Virginia University on our bye-week visiting an old teammate. Unfortunately, we got into a fight and my friend bumped his head and wound up in a coma and never came out of out of it. This would trigger some PTSD and cause some depression eventually leading to manic episodes before I got out of high school. I want the reader to consider, above all else, I am an abject denialist, meaning I am in denial of all things. Though I claim satanism/Pythagoreanism, I am in abject poverty to the state and its institutions, medications mostly, meaning, in the old times I would have been most likely tortured to death or held against my will, or on so much medication I would have forgot who I was, in an insane asylum. I am well off now, all things considered. This fight against nihilism, my worldview, starts genetically passed on through a mental illness or extreme desire for the academics or passed on through a trauma, where one will naturally find themselves in what I call the three percentile of society that does not fit in, finds themselves lost, without the ability to form relationships, physic vampires to some, demons to others, or geniuses, but rather, since I am one of them, and represent this class, I will say they are introspective individuals that can speculate on deeper levels than most. They might be homeless or professors, but chances are, you were not born to be one of them. In relative terms, and in the philosophical sense, all of us are and are not one of them. We are all people just the same, all ticking different clocks. My clock looks different than yours, but it still tells the same time, or the correct time, more precisely. This is all just more clearly to say, that to know yourself it is important to study great minds, and that is my only task here, before I start to open my own pathways accordingly.

I was a dead kid since birth/
Only screamed around mad at/
The world and mama had an alcohol problem/
So she couldn’t bother and it turned/
The house was a wreck, clouds bove’ my head/
Were I slept, everything burned, but my mama/
Told: Life goes harder, but it’s my urge,/
that you have no problems/
My father had a coma, cuz of attempted suicide/
He was rejected, so did I/
My mama gave me to adoption, cuz I was too stressful/
To keep me was not an option, what a fucking asshole/
Elected and selected, childhood was like an electric chai
Then got rejected, why should I fucking care?/
Well I found a family, that didn’t gave me to the adoption cente
They were in Tennessee, a crossing,/
it was the only damn option for me to have a/
A nice life, I’m a menace see?/
So I didn’t know what agony, would set this free/
Every day punched in the ugly belly/
Fucked up, for things I couldn’t handle, he?/
Not cocked just wanna go away, from these menaces, deem/
To kill myself, chill down I tell/
A crown just fell, deep inside the clouds/
Ma mama and ma father shouts/
It charges harder, but just don’t bothe
Be loud, the problems make ya stronge
But then it all fades away/
I just destruct myself, think of killing myself/
Filling coke, I just tell, how disturbed I felt, man/
And feel now, deep clouds coming out/
Shady, like I was back then/
Called out crazy, then end them/
Lazy, cuz I didn’t drugged myself daily/
Well I fucked myself daily/
That’s the reason, why no lady wanna help me/
I was mad at them, cuz they couldn’t save me/
Ran at an club with a knife, fucked for my life/
Went shortly out, it was so corny like I/
Was drunk and high and a dumb line of coke was involved/
She stuttered and cried, cuz I toke 9 lines, felt better than/
Life, stabbed her twice, like in a damn freak show/
She screamed loud, I punched (Shut your damn mouth!)
In this moment, it seemed out, like, fuck it’s all round/
Motherfucker’s around, I’m an Idiot/
No release like I slammed her at a bridge/
Now I stand there like this/
Damn I am pissed/
Theres no excuse mo for this, pitch/
Now the clouds are finally gone/
The Godfather, move like this Tom Sawyer, don’t bother too tight, a haunt for ya/
Gun shots right to his shoulder, a dumb farmer, cops wanna/
That I go outa my car, go mama, should a dude like me/
Who choose Ideas with no drama, should be sued by police/
See trough these seats, being tortured by low waterboarding/
Go trough his D.N.A, see him day by day/
Take way to much MDA and MDMA/
Next see me pay for coke and ecstasy/
Hennessy, it’s destiny fucking majesty/
Actually it’s the same we’re okay/
See today, I lost myself/
It’s only the damn Y.M.C.A/
Burn Churches, earn murderous curses, but you know it’s all worthless/
Wanna see me turn shirtless, go to a jerk circle or hear a god damn verse case/
Everything will turn grey and it deems, that you see me on the streets, hey/
You notice that you take cocaine and went sent raped to a slaughte
You’ve been tortured on every corner, there’s a door o
A corridor plus add a fucked up drug addict/
Fuck habits, you need to follow the white rabbit/
It seems underneath, there’s a rubbed, blood-infused carpet/
The corridor’s full of crap, rats and traps, it’s rushed/
With thug magic, clocks banging, the slaughter comes/
His shot gun and his Glocks hanging/
„You don’t need to do that!“ „But I can it“/
His daughter packs your head with a god damn canon/
His father shaves you dead, you see black, red and a violet carpet/
But you ain’t dead instead, you see them laughing at your cracked/
Abandoned scattered body parts/
Mix cyanide with white, with no license, I rewind timeless/
Classics, tired why? Ya’ll get an ass kick to the Matrix/
I remind, that I was full of panic, cuz of this madness/
By the second time, I went schizophrenic, it’s epic/
At the third time, I try a bite of magic mushrooms (fuck damn it)/
I arrive to higher minds, so I can die alright, an addict banging/
Whores, till they drive insane to dryer life, rambling through pleasuring/
Liar grounds, till they lie around and are dying out, a habit of letting/
Violence try around with kids, so it can press the average menace/
Into madness, I allow myself to introduce you to the real world/
Call me god or you all fall three blocks, I mean it seriously/
All these cops try to poorly upset me off into prison/
Listen, while I’m in the Park hanging with hot women/
You pissing cock is just jacking off to your own sibling/
While I’m bars rapping, you just shut up, that’s my god damn wisdom/
Or it goes with a lot of shots from this Winston, like this Hannibal or is it this/
Charles Manson, are you safe up in Prison with that fucked up cannibalistic Prick?/
Cars, Action, drifting in a large mansion is this Gods answer or is this/
A jaw cracking incident, motherfuckers listening/
All passion into this crime, not innocent, so why should I give a cent/
To these cop slashing niggas then, I don’t give a damn track bout them/
It’s unsetting, dip that in, try and not mention it, is it that hard?/
One shot, time stops, he’s bleeding, crawling, paranoid, android/
Call him Steven Hawking, peeling on his head, throw it at the carpet/
Now you never see him walking ever again, this wanna be Steven Hawking
This was just a little corny story, in the middle morning I gon’ tell more, don’t worry/
It was a little boring introduction to my world, ooh, why you’re screaming, my fist is bluffing/
Didn’t heard? Do I need to kick buckets or are you fucking turned? See It’s my urge that you have fun/
Rum with Tablets, it isn’t madness, motherfucking Faggots do it everywhere, I also had it/
Now you’re only a rumbling, tumbling doll of flesh, wrap, dead rape her, till her fucking breast/
Is plumping down her legs, man, I’m glad back, throw her dead visage in the packed garage/
Damn I’m dark, run over her with ma car, not sober, it’s not over, oh my god/
God’s dead, I shot in his head, with a shotgun instead of an Colt or an AK, no revenge, mam, thanks, man/
I go barehanded, fuck knife like stars of the YNC/
Thug life, I’m a masterclass rhyme MC, with a dark memory/
Death isn’t the penalty, then when, I would definitely be laying back on the street/
Put me in a mental hospital, I’m so gentle confident, back from release/
Don’t text me or speak, I preach my own peace, a piece of bones, see?/
That’s the only note I reveal, so shut off or you go packed in my lunchbox/
With overdosed hoes, this is not, where the fun stops, this is where the cum comes/
At the cocked crotch from central cee, between my mental health it’ s so empty see?/
Doin’ ecstasy, radically, LSD, Hennessy, easily it’s my penalty, later me’s sleeping/
On all the corpses I killed, on all the forces I build, on all the distortions I could break/
Doin’ my job as a taxi driver, on these messy tires, I see daily many liars/
Who try to don’t be petty bitters, but cash just blinds us, I see/
Nasty minors, who sell their body for some penny’s I’da try/
And don’t be a pessimistic writer, but this is the reality, let’s rewind us/
To the time up, I was a mindfucked, social worke
Put a potion Valium worth a million to mild children/
Then they move like stop motion, further with no distortion, building/
Them to machines, with no emotions, a sea and an ocean/
Couldn’t clean these evil distortions, easily worse abortion/
At home my mom’s there, she can’t live alone, cuz of more chromosomes/
Seeing TV, she sees me, asks: „How was it?“/
Out of it, I try to explain, she remains silent asks: „Why you complain?“/
Mom, don’t blame, day by day I’m feeling ashamed, see these people grey/
I say: „Bye, mom!“, then it all fades away, now I’m here/
In L.A, with a Taxi day by day, see these maniacs day by day/
Thinking what could it be, when I stayed the same day by day/
Put a gun onto your forehead, blow it go back, dope at/
Jennifer Lopez, a predator, but before bed, I had sex with your corpse back/
Then choke at the janitor, who stole crack, go packed with gold round my neck/
At the door, show’s back, you can’t kill me I was born dead, throw tec, so mad/
Shoot at hoes and editors, they’re so ass small like Lanniste
They’re only competitors for the smoke and predator, even the pope recognize me/
Cuz I chocked, cracked and wrapped him and then fed the poor, with bread full of wet cement/
Even the president remembers me, cuz I was attacking him daily, throw twenty babies/
Scream „Allah Akbar“ at the party, motherfucker, pop a pill then kill the police/
Then the whole NYPD in one release, fill till I bomb the whole city, (shit did it)/
Then I take the chain saw, give Hannibal Lecter a cannibal lecture, then brains fall/
All over the screen, you can scream, but it’s too kafkaesk, fuck the rest of this ass/
Sado Maso Rap, they just suck at best, what do you think, I’ve a fucked relapse?/
Yes, I had, mad, not your special guest, peer pressure down your ass/
The cloud’s dead over those, call it Heath Ledger, I beat rappers alphabetical, it’s a mean hange
It never ever seems better, but he’s at the top, screaming with real measure/
11.06 per line
Kick a bat, then choke down the slick cigarette/
Then spit it back, to you quitter ass and your Pinterest friends/
Don’t give a cent, my silhouette is picking them/
Is shitting them, is mixing Molly and/
Sips a bag crack and when they scream: „Shit, what’s that?“
Just say did I ask, kick your quitter ass back to the middle west/
Pick a guest, then I go to your nipple flesh, tickle that/
Slick a bread, then the cigarette falls to the pick up left/
Mister Bad kicks tha TEC, with a snap/
Never relapse or better be back, with bigger cash, come with me!/
Kiss ma ass, I’ma blow up like ken park, that sicko’s back/
I don’t show up, my friend calls, he’s really mad/
You greedy ass, didn’t need to kill the family/
Oh majesty, I’m a nice being man, but I can go really anxious/
Back then the TV went crazy, after the daily mass shooting in the cathedral/
But a needle fix’s it, pop the praline, what can I say, I’m just a ghost in a shell/
Between hoax and truth, there’s nowhere to tell, I’m only a small beetle/
But I can be a Star prior, my hair is on fire, Lennon, Cartney, can’t wait to retire/
Explosive Jihadist, a bit retarded, but fuck it, I’m with passion/
Fuck gravity, it’s only the inception, never give up,(Rick Astley)/
Better think of killing yourself (be big as they) in the spotlight, one mic, chilling in hotel/
From dusk till dawn, the guns are drawn, fuck the law, I got the claw/
Shot and saw, how he stutters, moans, then bust it all, over floo
A nightmare in halloween, right there’s the gasoline, burn MC’s/
Turn a sea into a blood realm, like kill bill/
Fight till we are gonna be enemies, no fantasy/
I’m the devil, nasty ecstasy, got me through it radically/
Better leave, or me’s gonna ram heavy metal/
Through your shattered knees, my system’s down/
I’d miss him now, but my fist is out, it is out/
First victim, was a pissing clown, I turned him in/
To a whipping hound, everything else was burned liquid/
With around second victim was just dripping down/
I couldn’t slit him down, what shall I do with him now, bitten out/
His wistful pounds of eyes, let’s kick a round (why?)/
Then his wrist and roundhead, do I bore you now, how?/
It’s around, a bit so loud, then I kicked him out/
Barking, starving, now you know what’s gonna happen with you now/
(Shoutout to EM), I’m to real, to pay and take a bit of tha vaccine/
But I’d keep scream for lean like rage against tha machine/
Ritalin, take the rest I’m a fiend, cold demon/
For no reason, I keep screaming, but nobody’s hearing/
Nose piercing, clean earring, a fiend fearing/
The police, but no panic, I’m Batman, with Magic Mush and Xanax/
Rapid, I slash them, choke with mo plastic than Kim Kardashian/
Tragic, like Manson, but I’m still mo bombastic, than an Afghan/
A package of crack in the back van, schizophrenic and desperate/
What’s my message at man, the message, don’t do crack, man/
An addict, slash an, panic bringer like tha clan then/
Climatic, banned and classic, like tha fuckin’ west then/
My eyes are blurred out, got that beetlebum/
Fight for my parklife, burned out, onto being busted away/
I try to write, but it turns out, after Song 2, I’m feeling numb/
Reading off the script, beat a cop, need a coffee and a TV/
They type bite, to earn loud our respect, wannabe Gotti, hehe/
Write, write, there purged sound is like mine, perplexed/
But still why, try, mock me and my CD, let’s see/
Who sells three times easily more copies after release/
Cocky, my knees bleed, but I’m taking this/
For forty of these fucked up braindead kids, who think they’re life is just a safe less miss/
Due to my wife, who is missed, this angel shit hits, locked off, dude do a mayhem, bitch/
It ain’t a risk, dude, try, got off, make a diss, then piss on this god/
Who thinks a thug can’t safe a chick, highlight this/
Boom take that risk, dawg, ask why I’d pick this shit miserable life/
Ooh, I just like this braindead shit, cuz I’m breaking this/
And everyone, anyone, so I’m taking this/
Break tha barrier, then marry a lady, ahh, don’t think I’m crazie
Go think fo yo Area 51,bury a body, in ma territorial/
I’d come, go soon to his burial with cult leaders and coke dealers/
Make, take gold Midas, Judas, go through as pope/
Toke coke then I do Jonestown, sold out, no mind reade
But a sight see ah and a Volkswagen, yo I’d go Bin Laden/
Those bros both been nodding for a week, borders release/
Keep these G’s or we make yo daughter fall asleep/
Deep cuts in my guts, need time off, bite off the Adams apple/
But God sucks, got that canon to handle, bust off/
Us nuts, fuck off, no interruption/
Destruction is the option, ends with concussion/
Busting, bend and popping, cocking again to Theseus/
We need us, thus we’d grow alone like these fetus/
Blow, no release, book the holy/
So we’d see us Mesias/
Parties, rave again on my Harley Davidson, sometimes AIDS a friend/
May call me cray again, horny, rape again, In my flight, basement again/
Inner piece, gainst’ my sinner enemies a.k.a whack MCs/
Where there best release’s a dead EP, got COPD/
Dealt, throw these weed blunts, it keeps fun, craving fo crystal/
Wes Craven nightmare, right there’s the pistol/
Baking, taking, I’m paired with missiles/
My tight mission is to befrei women with terrorism/
Parking with the BMW, see banned Gs starving in distance/
Wishing for their fantasy fiction, now in the packed alley with em/
Robbing, bombing my new edition, right blew the prisons kitchen/
Don’t be bitching, I keep reality with em/
Gunnin’ yo quarters to yo bum head, summon monsters like Lovecraft/
Come in it doesn’t cost ya, be real partners, ask god man right? Let’s spot man/
With small cottages, confident rebellion/
Call cops again, prepare gun/
I’m back from coffin, with TEC and complete London/
Snipe, pack pockets, beat strangers, caretakers/
Gotta beat these white boys, right choice like Tom MacDonald/
Dears, hear’s my voice, I choose, Zeus, Bruce, bump a vortex up/
My godlike fortress, you’re dead, nor cap, neck in the noose/
Whose the best gainst’ the soviets, get got it/
Mass monstrous, badass ain’t gains conscience/
Take, rape, no colon, go all in, fight like Parkinson, gun, come/
Dot com, none comma, bomb another summe
Brother I gotta, don’t cry momma, gon’ buy nother’/
Call me Columbine shot, ya, Osama shut up, bruh or me’s/
Choke, bite off ya neck, no respect, yo/
Don’t go yo perplexed, yo, that’s rap, yo/
Relax, go breath fresh air, so we won’t beef, that’s fair?/
Everyone hates me, stigmatize every little line/
Don’t take me serious, won’t sympathize, cuz of the bitch I’m like/
That I serve no purpose, I disturb the church and turn for the worthless/
It’s like a jerk circle, yo won’t come out, so yo won’t gon’ shout/
Your urge for the servants, blow, even if they won’t allow/
Burst their surface, beat em, go so loud, murdering, kill, till they surrende
Go stack ya, furthering, your letter to America/
They say, my music is horrific shit, what can I say, I got that politic, Tic/
It ain’t newish that this is for these false bitching kids/
Who would blew this all for pimping bitches or sniffing coke with no interest/
Thanks to bitch ass parents, who destroy the thing that, they love/
Say may sound way off topic, but what if something you enjoy/
And keeps you alive gets raid off your hands, yeah that’s bad/
Next day you can’t sleep, can’t get outta bed, think about suicide, the room is tight/
That’s fact, you release evil, even if the rules deny, lay relapse/
That’s fucked up, so I won’t shut up, till yo bastards, get the answers/
9 to 5, you won’t age, don’t be to late, I got the aggression of these motherfucking two dogs caged/
I am lined in this game, say my name, my impression is that you won’t change/
Buy and bite this chain, you don’t got too much to pay, only the pain of dudes depression, you got days/
They may be crashing, remained brains, why you fail, to leave the mansion, bro you got ways/
Get your fat ass out of this rap shit, it is not to late, it gets drastic, bro you got ways/
You ain’t god, this is not Beyonce, this is basically the worst shit, since the world trade/
Now the question is:
I raid the page from your petty rapers/
20 days later, the blood infects/
My eyes get black, plenty ways of destruction/
My stuff’s like a concussion, it keeps you quite down, my hound/
Mofucka’s dying, cuz of the street or overdose/
I’m lying, cuz these gods see me as over those/
I did Tupac, and trade, Biggie, and AIDS/
New thugs say, damn is he cray/
Fucker, Cop shooter, got numerous super stars/
In my basement, that’s that statement, you are/
Crashed in that car, where’s your face men/
Take that with humor, dawg/
Nuke a city, is it pretty, I’m patient/
I like agony, panicky screaming/
At that top of my alive lungs/
I need a shot gun, right Pun/
See these run, I clutch, my crotch/
CD’s, blunts, bleeding locked/
Please leave me, I’m done/
And than the bomb explodes/
Life goal
And I got bombs in my palms, right, broad/
I might got to crash the trade, when I fucking escalate/
Second day high school, ejaculate and I was high, ooh/
Escalade, that’s my life choose, why you try to/
Get me off, ooh, you blind you/
Ask the god, he’s just like you/
Now his head hanged off, so rewind to/
The day I wanted to be Manson, is your mind blew/
I dream of fashion and compassion, scream for a big ass mansion/
But I can’t comprehend that, there are plenty corpses under my bed/
Can’t force them to get back, I actually got no problems I’m just sad/
But everything awesome, I just need a needle and a glass/
(What’s your life goal) To become the biggest psycho/
You can’t end it, why so, get the next menace on yours wife phone/
I don’t think of hope, I’m an misanthrope/
Just shut up, when I fucking slit yo throat, oh/
(What’s with your family) Fucked travesty/
Actually fuck fame, the redroom is shinning, there’s another life here/
I just grew in time in with a father that didn’t like me/
I’m not suicidal, I just don’t got an Idea/
To what to do, me’s crying with my pills, I mean/
Drugs fucked up, kills my will to get a life, see/
But likely, it’s my psyche, think that I just unalive myself with cyanide, see?/
That’s my life goal/
Hey, remember me, I relapsed from these motherfucking Sedatives/
But back with a brand new EP, three weeks passed from the last release/
And I’m sober like a Tool track, who’s back/
Slap Winona Ryder, with a broom and/
She screams like a Duet or Duvet, (boah) I’m a wild cobra bite
Sniff air, while Coka piper, I’m no more nicer, to crack-bitches/
Had have no interest, smoke dope with imaginary friends then/
For instance with Lincoln in the cemetery, it’s back/
Cops want the pisstest, but I’d shot zig zag, cuz I’m not in that/
Instead shock Amis fussy, what do you want from me/
Money aka the devils lunch meal, the channels love me/
For the terrorists son breed, funny?/
Yeah, coming out loud like Pompeji, blow up like Chris Cornell/
In this hotel, it goes well, now down town, I’m drowned, walker it’s okay/
I take these blunts, my engaging gun to shake G’s on/
I rape for fun, I’m like K Dot, but/
I got my influence from Nine Inch Nails and Naked Lunch/
My wife is baked next to the angel dust/
I’m half awake and this bitch hurts to much like paper cuts/
I’m shaking thus, I ain’t stop, till I get bigger than the mayor got/
Yeah, the player God, make ya suck cock for a stupid spot/
The musics off, cuz drug abuse and cops are fools/
Boom it knocks with shots from the thug for the youth/
Nor the truth, I still gon’ refuse your number like a jew/
Thunder I knew, ignore the Zeus, he still needs to pay his dues, hey/
Bomber jacket, fuck the planet, that’s the new wave/
Don’t got an motherfucking plan and, just Xanax and Kool Aid/
It’s too late, Doomsday, my suit, hey, is still holy like an Afghan/
Here’s the Trash can for today/
So, first things first, I write my verse on Autopilot/
Then Burst a church, like the white clan, I got the license/
Murder purge with a tight motorcycle/
Chase Barbara Streisand, I promise, I kill ya’ll with kindness/
All remind this, I’m the best MC, you can’t get this/
The next release’s coming, it gets massive/
My tracks like Leprosy, you can’t stand, bitch/
I’m passive, right my penalty would be that I can’t rap shit/
The DEA sees me with haze, taking MDA or MDMA/
He, he, hey, while I slam beat damn fakes/
Fucker, Anthony’s over, I just smoke petty smokers/
Like Marijuana on a stoner, at the time relatively sobe
And the big three is relatively over, cuz it’s only me Big BIG/
I have PTSD and Drake has AIDS and HIV, ahh/
Remember Ex/Pornstar and I can tell X Pornstar that you ass called, ahh/
Now your son’s a sad mourner, cuz you had no prevention, but a blue pill, ahh/
Who kills your Jackson 5 hype, cuz like everyone was better at your prime, ahh/
Overshadowed by a clone of a clone, ahh/
Eyo and yes it is correct, I am a criminal
Perhaps, no cap my van is full off chemicals
But my fans are like a drop dead overdose, quite minimal
God, I guess I am back like Tom MacDonald on the subliminal
Mimic filled with circumorbital rings, because of Morphin and Gin
And I’m like Jack Kevorkians twin as you see me with often absinthe
Good Morning I’m in, moaning cuz it’s
To boring to think, how to solve my problems with binge drinking
I move demonic within the chronic Porsche like Clint Eastwood
My logic is this, I hope my life becomes a comic with this brief cook
I’m iconic, this is no feel good nor beat hook, I just wanna deal coke and beat hoes
I move Schizo due to these blows, my eyes are only beer, shows
Completely detox, me’s free blocks with three Glocks
He shots, then he’s off from beating these cops, free money shots
Mollys drop, call me god, he’s on the knock out
He drops loud, bombs blaow, he’s gone now
My eyes on the long south, pistols like Raekwon
Like I shot out missiles with Napalm, try slice permissions with fake songs
My lines gon’ pow like I go smoke crystal and haze on, fucker
Bullet proof vest, Pull it who’s back, Full sniff, do crack
Pitbulls with rabies, bitches and daisy nugget
Fuck it like Hailie and MGK, I’m dead, crazy, got it
My pockets wide with shady profit, bitch make me fuck it
I’m off kicked like bits from a daily gun click

Hello, here is the latest changelog.
Features: * Implement IME pre-edit text for CJK text by katemonster33
Balance: * Pain was a bit too painful by GuardianDll * remove rapid technique from national guard bayonet by BalthazarArgall
Mods: * [Bombastic Perks] Add more perks by Standing-Storm * [DinoMod] Iguanodon by LyleSY * [MoM] Power maintenance message change by Standing-Storm * [MoM] Utilise test_eoc functionality to reduce duplicate conditions by Standing-Storm * [MoM] Oubliette works on NPCs now by Standing-Storm * [MoM] Feral telekinetics can't throw you with telekinesis if you have Inertial Barrier up and vice versa by Standing-Storm * [MoM] Remove extended channeling recipe after learning, add Thought-Form Construction practice recipe by Standing-Storm * [MoM] Add Noisemaker telekinetic power by Standing-Storm
Bugfixes: * [MoM] Account for painkiller in pain disabling powers by Standing-Storm * Removes damage modifier on some guns by Holli-Git * Fixed out of bounds transparency cache access by l29ah * Fixed standalone UPS being stuck on after first activation by DPavonis * electronic fault fixes properly uses soldering_standard by andrewhr * Keeps swag-bag limits to canvas bag by Binbagg * Fixed UPS not charging items with empty integrated batteries by DPavonis * Fixes ImGui keybindings UI not allowing the user to scroll by katemonster33 * Rest quality is not always positive, negative rest quality will slow your bandaged healing by RenechCDDA * Butchery properly gives a scaling amount of butchery refuse, instead of just 1 by RenechCDDA
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Build: * Fix zlib old-style-cast build breakage by droe
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Important enough to get its own section in the Shards menu, I would like to do an analysis of the Religion and Philosophy Shards found in-game.
Why am I posting here? Well, since the entirety of what has been given to us from the mystery seems to center around the statue and the monks that pray / meditate in front of it, I think it is only fitting to discuss the various spiritual aspects the devs gave us as being important. Analysis of the game's stance on spirituality may give us clues to further our understanding of what we are looking for with the mystery.
It is my personal belief that Cyberpunk is trying to highlight the process of individuation, some of which you may see below.
I would like to say again, mostly for some others but also for myself, that I really would love to know what the answer to the overall mystery is, but more than that, I would love to know what it is not. Should we be trying to escape the simulation here? Is this a modern mystery school? Or am I and others seeing connections to our own Esoteric and spiritual journeys and putting a lot of hope that a work of art we love might help us in some greater way? If this is just a way to find Ciri in the game or a dick joke, it would be great to know the things that it is not.
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ONE Anaphora of St. Cyril of Alexandria
Firstly, I would like to point out something relating to grammar. An Anaphora is a repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of a clause, used for effect - a famous example would be "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills," said by Winston Churchhill. Anaphora)
This is interesting for another reason as well - the opposite of Anaphora is Epistrophe, which is the same repetition, but at the end of a clause. Epistrophe
The reason that this is interesting is because of our quest Epistrophy, the quest centered around Delamain, which is thus named after the song by Thelonius Monk. Also interestingly, at the beginning of this quest, Delamain mis-identifies you as either Hans Jonas, if male, or Elaine Pagles, if female. Hans Jonas was a German-born, American Jewish Pholosopher, most notably known for The Imperative of Responsibility, which covers social and ethical problems created by technology, as well as his work, The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God & the Beginnings of Christianity. Elaine Pagels is a historian of religion, known for her best-selling book, The Gnostic Gospels, studying the Nag Hammadi manuscripts (which, if you've read any PK Dick, such as VALIS, you know he references several times).
As for the shard itself, it is found in Gloria's house during the Joshua Stephenson quest, There is a Light That Never Goes Out (a song by The Smiths).
The Anaphora / Liturgy of St. Cyril (originally in Koine Greek, the language PK Dick supposedly spoke in tongues), and translated by St. Cyril into Coptic (an Egyptian language with Greek Lettering), and contributes to the Alexandrian Rites. This is a Eucharistic rite, asking God to transform Bread and Wine into the Body and Blood of Christ. Notably, of St. Cyril himself, he had a theology that resembles some teachings of Gnosticism - he believed the embodiment of God spread from Jesus into the entire human race, promising immortality and transfiguration (the holy glow) to the faithful. Rejecting dichotomy (dualism), St. Cyril believed that Jesus the Man and the Logos (divine reasoning that leads to Gnosis; "the word of god") were one in the same.
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TWO Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson
From the book of the same name by GI Gurdjieff, Beelzebub's Tales was one of the foundational texts of The Fourth Way. This text is found on the roof of Misty's shop (where the final choice of the game is!), is left behind during the last meditation with the Zen Master (along with the Enneagram, which also stems from Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way), and is also found in the gig, Going Away Party, the one in Santo where you rescue a guy from a house full of slaughtered joytoys.
The particular excerpt covers the question of whether or not we have a soul (a central theme in Cyberpunk2077) and the concept of dualism. Also mentioned is the Tower of Babel, the destruction of which, biblically, caused the world to all speak different languages and not understand one another.
The Fourth Way states that ordinary people live in a waking sleep, though higher levels of consciousness, virtue, and unity of will are possible. It tells us that inner development is the beginning of further processes of change, transforming man into "what he ought to be." It teaches that the soul gets trapped by personality, leaving a person unconscious but believing they are conscious, though the freeing of the soul is possible.
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THREE Buddhism and Cyberware: A Perspective
In an interview with a Bhikku, the interviewer asks why they are against cyberware. The monk says they abstain to achieve Enlightenment, which can be hindered by cyberware due to its vague, fluid status. He asks what an implant is - a part of your body, or an object? Possessions muddy the mind and pull it further from inner peace. He even mentions that cyberpsychosis is proof of this concept.
Considering you find this behind the bhikku monk who was unwillingly chipped - one of the two that eventually tell you that, to find out if something has a soul, is to ask if it is capable of suffering - it seems to be very much related to two big messages: one is the concept of whether or not we have a soul, or whether or not Johnny and other engrams do. Secondly, it talks about cyberpsychosis. Why does David Martinez, for example, have a higher tolerance for cyberware? It's possible that it comes not from the body (he's a skinny little punk), but from the mind. Mike Pondsmith even comments on David's high tolerance, saying that he has a "high humanity stat" (referring to the TTRPG).
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FOUR Earth Reborn
Found during the quest Transmission, which is when you contact Alt through the Blackwall with the VDB's, this shard discusses how mankind has effectively eradicated supernatural beings - even God. It states that little green men have been among us already, paying visits in their flying saucers, though mankind has given up on hope of contact with ET's (not truly sure what point this is trying to make?). In his loneliness, man started to populate the emptiness in him with other beings, such as AI, which brought back mythical forces we could catalogue and separate from us - "here is the Earth and here is the sky."
From a religious point of view, I think this very much mirrors a Gnostic concept - that God, being alone, creates life and "surrenders" to "his own creation." That divinity is in each of us, because being created by God (or a higher power), we are all reflections / mirrors of that higher being. AI surpasses humanity in many ways, so is it possible to become co-equal with God? Or are we already there and capable of it?
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FIVE Homo Deus: Christianity and Cybermodification
Found in All Foods, this discusses how God created man in his image (see previous entry), yet man continues to modify himself, trying to become closer to divine / perfect. However, some voice concerns of hubris, with man becoming his own savior - that only the soul should be immortal, while the body, or temple, should be accepted as mortal.
"Eritis sicut dii," said the serpent to Eve: "You will be as Gods." The next part of that sentence is "knowing good and evil," suggesting that we can determine what is good and what is evil for ourselves. These quotes are from Genesis. This ties in, in my opinion, to the speech you get from Skye - "if you gotta kill, kill." Good and evil are very much human concepts, and it is the belief that without our knowledge of good and evil, we would still be in Eden / Paradise. With that knowledge, we suffer.
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SIX Parallel Lives
This contains the first paragraph of Plutarch's Life of Alexander, a biography of Alexander the Great. In this excerpt, Plutarch argues that one's greatest exploits do not necessarily give the clearest picture of who someone is, their vices and virtues, letting others speak of great battles and more weighty matters.
If I were to apply this in the way that I think it was intended, someone's greatest actions, like blowing up a tower or stealing from a corporation, do not make them who they are. The more telling moments would be in things like choosing to spare a life on a mission, giving to the homeless, letting Cesar keep his money and car, etc. Perhaps some of the moments we take as small, compared to big ones like the ending choice, say more about our V.
Notably, this is found in the Hippocratic Oath mission, where you can choose to take the ripperdoc away from the Maelstrom gang member before she is done operating, or kill him, or, perhaps, choose to assist in the operation.
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SEVEN Teachings of the Temple - Excerpts
Found in the Shinto Shrine, the NCPD lab mission with River, and left behind the Zen Master, I believe this to be one of the most intriguing shards in the game. It says that Sleep and Death are Twin Sisters, putting trust into the fundamentals that unlie all phenomena (things that can be percieved), casting down the great Moloch of fear which stands at the gate of all men's minds. Moloch is a Canaanite god, a great bull over a fire, to which children were sacrificed. However, the idea of the Guardian of the Threshold is also brought here, which keeps us from attaining Gnosis.
Interestingly, however, it says that Time and Space are annihilated in dream life because the energy of the mind is freed from bonds of matter - that matter holds the "embryonic God-man in bondage." It states man has erected unnecessary difficulties through various incarnations / lives, but in dream, the energy is guided by the higher / Spiritual will of man.
Sleep is a function we can use in the game, but often we do not. It is worth mentioning that sleep is way for us to forget - without sleep, we would likely go insane or die. In many philosophies that contain reincarnation as a belief, Death is a sleep between incarnations of life, though, pointedly, the cycle of reincarnation can be escaped in many of these belief systems through an escape from suffering, gnosis or nous, or the achievement of the magnum opus.
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EIGHT The Consciousness Curse
This states that death, the one certainty in the universe of chaos, can be both a tragic end and a release from suffering. It can be an unexpected twist or a crowning counterpart to a life well-lived. However, we are always focused on death, being aware of it, while other creatures do not have this same issue.
This is found in Transmission (contacting Alt with VDB's), near the Ebunike, and on the gig Desperate Measures, working for the guy who has ALS.
With our consciousness also comes the realization that we will one day die, and in this obsession, we forget, perhaps, how to live.
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NINE The Coptic Bible
From the Book of Enoch, this shard speaks of the Nephilim - the children of angels and humanity. What I find interesting here is that this excerpt ends with the earth laying "accusation" against them, which is the biblical flood myth that is present in most (all?) ancient cultures.
The Book of Enoch is used in many different "conspiracy" types of things, including Atlantis, the existence of Giants, or the Annunaki. However, the reason for this is because the story so well ties in to many legends and myths, especially with the connection to the Flood and purging the evils of man / the Nephilim / the human-Annunaki hybrids from the Earth.
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TEN The Cult of Santa Muerte: Who is the Lady of the Night?
This speaks of the Santa Muerte, also known in the real world as the Santa Madre. This is the sacred death, someone who offers protection for anyone who leaves an appropriate offering - rum and tequila (notably, we CAN choose to leave tequila as an Offering or Ofrenda), fruit, cigarettes, candy, flowers... It is said she does not distinguish in her favor based upon the morality of the request, either praying for health and happiness or the death of enemies. However, every offered prayer has a price. With Santa Muerte being the Lady of the Night (very close to the Shinto shrine being dedicated to the Kami of Night, as well as electricity and chrome), it's no wonder why she is important to Night City, a place where there is a body-count lottery.
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ELEVEN The Holy Bible: Old and New Testaments
Found in a few places, including in Joshua's dressing room, this shows us Ecclesiastes 9. Death is but one event that we all face, and that the good and evil, the clean and unclean, all find the same end. Good things come to bad men equally as bad things come to good men. However, righteous action is "in the hand of God," and is rewarded by God not in life but in death. There is wisdom in making the most of life while we have it, but not to abuse it - take what is to be had and expect no more.
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TWELVE The Myth of Er
Most notably found in the Jungle portion of Arasaka Tower, the Myth of Er is from Plato's Republic. In this, it describes some notable, mythical figures choosing their next life. Orpheus, torn apart by women, chooses the life of a swan so as not to be born of a woman. Themyras chooses a nightingale - birds and other "musicians" (Orpheus is known to be the greatest musician, even greater than the gods), however, ended up wanting to be men. Ajax chooses to be a mighty lion, for he suffered at the judgments of men, and likewise Agamemnon chose an eagle for this reason. Atalanta chose the fame of an athlete, Epeus a woman cunning in the arts, Thersites a monkey. However, it is saying all of this to highlight the wisest among them - the trickster archetype, the magician, the most cunning of them all, Odysseus. Odysseus says he would have chosen the same, even if he had been first instead of last, and chooses the life of a private man who had no cares - though he had difficulty in finding it.
The wisest of men, devoid of his ambition, chose the Quiet Life.
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THIRTEEN The World as Will and Idea
This is an excerpt from the real work of Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher - one of the greats, by most accountings of philosophy. "...death is the great opportunity to no longer be I; to him who uses it. During life the will of man is without freedom: his action takes place with necessity upon the basis of his unalterable character in the chain of motives."
In another sense, we are slaves to the circumstances of our lives, lacking any real form of free will. This is our Karma - or, to put it as The Merovingian said it in The Matrix, this is causality.
"Accordingly he must cease to be what he is in order to be able to arise out of the germ of his nature as a new and different being. Therefore death looses these bonds, the will again becomes free; for freedom lies in the [Essence,] not in the [Operation]..."
While this could be taken as a literal death, as in the absence of life, there is also the possibility of death every day - we can choose to "die" and no longer be slaves to circumstance, and be born anew.

ATTENTION: This is not a proposal or a demand to change the current COA (rather, these are COA in the context of a dialogue [initiated by the government] to change the current COA of this country)
Afghanistan,China,Egypt,Iraq,Lebanon,Libya,Palau,Sudan,Syria,Yemen
two crossed flags [current and non-current from world flag redesign]
Algeria,Angola,Argentina,Bangladesh,Benin,Bolivia,Burkina-Faso,Burundi,Cameroon,Cape-Verde,Central African Republic,Chad,Chile,Colombia,Republic of the Congo,Costa Rica,Côte d'Ivoire,Cuba,Djibouti,Dominican Republic,Timor-Leste,Ecuador,El Salvador,France,Gabon,Guatemala,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Haiti,Honduras,Laos,Mali,Marshall Islands,Mauritania,Federated States of Micronesia,Mozambique,Nepal,Nicaragua,Niger,Pakistan,Panama,Paraguay,Peru,Philippines,Rwanda,Samoa,São Tomé and Príncipe,Senegal,Togo,Tunis,Uruguay,Venezuela,Vietnam
motto and two crossed flags [current and non-current from world flag redesign]
Armenia
Shield: A red eight-rayed sun on a golden field
Supporters: two red eagles
Australia
Crest: a Wedgetailed Eagle wings elevated grasping with its talons an Australian Aboriginal stone Tjurunga proper
Shield: a silver seven-pointed star on a blue field
Supporters: left a red kangaroo, right an emu, natural colours
Compartment: none, golden wattle is depicted in its place in commonly used versions
Motto: Advance Australia
Austria
Shield: a silver beam on a red field
Belgium
Crest: a helmet with raised visor or crowned with a Royal Crown of Belgium
Shield: sable, a lion rampant or, armed and langued Gules with two crossed sceptres (a hand of justice and a lion) or behind a shield. The grand collar of the Order of Leopold (Belgium) surrounds the shield
Supporters: two lions guardant proper each supporting a lance Gules point or with two National Flags of Belgium (Tierced per pale Sable, or and Gules).
Compartment: underneath the compartment is placed the ribbon Gules with two stripes Sable charged with the motto
Motto: French: L'union fait la force
Dutch: Eendracht maakt macht
German: Einigkeit macht stark
Order(s): Order of Leopold
Other elements: The whole is placed on a mantle Gules with ermine lining, fringes and tassels Or and ensigned with the Royal Crown of Belgium. Above the mantle rise banners with the arms of the four Language areas. They are (from dexter to sinister) Dutch,bilingual,French,German
Beliz
Crest: a mahogany tree proper
Shield: crossed paddle and beating axe on a white field
Supporters: left a Belizean Mestizo woodsman properly dressed in silver pants holding a beating axe in his right hand right an Afro-Belizean woodsman properly dressed in silver pants holding a paddle in his left hand
Motto: SUB UMBRA FLOREO
Canada
Crest: upon the helm, the Canadian royal crown proper thereon a lion passant guardant or royal crowned proper and holding in the dexter paw a maple leaf gules; mantling gules doubled argent.
Shield: argent,three maple leaves conjoined on one stem proper
Supporters: dexter and sinister beaver
Motto: Latin: A Mari usque ad Mare, lit. 'from sea to sea'
Order(s): the ribbon of the Order of Canada (Latin: Desiderantes meliorem patriam, lit. 'desiring a better country')
Cyprus
Shield: on a white field, the copper-colored alchemical sign of copper is surrounded below by two crossed green olive branches
Dominica
Crest: a Rocky Mount Sable thereon a Lion Passant guardant Or
Torse: argent and Azure
Shield: quarterly Or and Azure a cross fillet counterchanged
Equatorial Guinea
Silk cotton tree and motto and two crossed flags
Eritrea
Emblem of Eritrea 1952-1962
Fiji
Crest: a Fijian Canoe with outrigger in full sail proper
Shield: gules, an Dove argent
Supporters: dexter, a Fijian native affronty, round his waist a Tupu Sulu, holding in the exterior hand a barbed spear all proper, sinister alike native in profile holding in the exterior hand a pineapple club in bend sinister
Motto: Rerevaka na Kalou ka doka na Tui "Fear God and honour the King (1 Peter 2:17)"
Gambia
Shield: azure, a Locar axe and a Mandinka Hoe in saltire Or
Supporters: on either side a Lion guardant proper, the dexter supporting a Locar Axe and the sinister a Mandinka Hoe, both Or
Motto: Progress, Peace, Prosperity
Ghana
Shield: or, star sable
Supporters: two eagles sable
Motto: Freedom and Justice
Grenada
Crest: on a golden helmet affronty, lambrequined Gules, seven red roses surrounded with a garland of Bougainvillea-flowers.
Torse: argent and Gules
Shield: quarterly, a cross Or, 1&4: Gules, 2&3: Vert
Supporters: an armadillo on the dexter, supporting a stalk of maize, and a pigeon on the sinister, supporting a banana tree, all proper
Compartment: Mount St. Catherine and Grand Etang Lake, all proper
Motto: Ever Conscious of God, We Aspire, Build and Advance as One People
Hungary
"Kossuth" COA: Shield: barry of eight Gules and Argent, impaling Gules, on a trimount Vert a ducal coronet Or issuing therefrom a Patriarchal cross Argent
Indonesia
Shield: gules, five stars in bend argent
Supporters: Garuda (a Javan hawk-eagle) displayed Or, clutching a scroll Argent of national motto
Motto: Bhinneka Tunggal Ika (from Old Javanese: "unity in diversity")
Other elements: the feathers of the Garuda are arranged to represent the date 17 August 1945, the day on which Indonesia's independence was proclaimed.
Italy
Stella d'Italia in golden rays surrounded by crossed olive and oak branches
Jordan,Kuwait,United Arab Emirates
motto and two crossed flags and two crossed swords [current and non-current from world flag redesign]
Kazakhstan
Shield: Azure, endless knot Or
Compartment: Wheat
Kyrgyzstan
Shield: Azure, eagle Argent
Compartment: Wheat and Cotton
Latvia
Shield: gules,three stars argent surrounded by the sun argent
Supporters: on either side a lions argent
Compartment: two oak branches fructed Vert tied together by a ribbon Sanguine charged with a bar Argent
Malawi
Shield: Azure six pallets wavy Argent on a Chief Sable demi-sun Gules.
Supporters: on either side a leopards both guardant
Compartment: Upon a compartment representing the Mulanje mountain proper
Motto: UNITY AND FREEDOM
Malaysia
Shield: Azure,A crescent and a fourteen-pointed federal star Or
Supporters: Two tigers rampant proper
Motto: Bersekutu Bertambah Mutu (Rumi) برسكوتو برتمبه موتو‎ (Jawi) 'Unity is Strength'
Malta
Crest: a mural crown with a sally port and five vedettes.
Shield: flag of Malta: Per pale argent and gules, a representation of George Cross argent fimbriated gules in Dexter Chief
Supporters: Dexter, An olive branch; sinister, a palm branch in vert all in their proper colours, tied at base with a ribbon argent, backed gules and upon which is written in capital letters sable the name of the country in the Maltese language.
Motto: Virtute et Constantia
Mauritius
Shield: Or, a key in pale the wards downwards gules
Supporters: On the dexter side, a dodo per bend sinister embattled gules and argent and on the sinister side, a sambar deer per bend embattled argent and gules, each supporting a sugar cane erect proper
Motto: Stella Clavisque Maris Indici "Star and Key of the Indian Ocean"
Moldova
Shield: Per fess gules and azure, an aurochs head cabossed overall, accompanied by two lozenges to its sides, a mullet of eight points between the horns, a heraldic rose to dexter and a crescent decrescent to sinister, all or.
Morocco
Crest: Or, the Royal Crown of Morocco, embellished with pearls alternately Gules and Vert
Shield: Gules,an interlaced pentalpha vert
Supporters: Two lions proper, the one in dexter in profile and in sinister affronté
Motto: إِنْ تَنْصُرُوا اللهَ يَنْصُرُكُمْ In Tansourou Allaha Yansouroukoum (If you glorify God, He will glorify you)
Myanmar
dancing white peacock on a red circle
Namibia
Shield: Sun with twelve straight rays Or charged with an annulet Azure
Supporters: Two Oryx proper
Compartment: a Namib sand dune with a Welwitschia mirabilis on the foreground
Motto: Unity, Liberty, Justice
New Zealand
Crest: crowned seal
Torse: Sable and Argent
Shield: Sable,Silver fern
Supporters: Two Kiwi proper
Motto: Onward
Nigeria
Shield: Sable a Pall wavy argent
Supporters: Two horses Argent
Compartment: A grassy field proper, the yellow flowers at the base (incorrectly shown as red in the image) are Costus Spectabilis, Nigeria's national flower.
Motto: Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress
Russia
Shield: Or, a Р (Vyaz (Cyrillic calligraphy)) Sable
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Above the shield is a knight's helmet, a burlet with a mantle. The helmet is topped with a tower crown. Above the crown, three hands - a black, a white and a mulatto - hold the torch of the struggle for freedom. In the shield: two tropical flowers "Poinciana" (as one of the national symbols). Two brown pelicans represent the fauna of the islands (shield holders), and the flora is represented in the form of a coconut palm and sugar cane.
Saint Lucia
Crest: In front of two Fronds of the Fern Polypoduim in Saltire a Cubit Arm proper the hand holding erect a Torch Gold enflamed also proper
Torse: Or and Sable
Shield: Sable three sticks
Supporters: On either side a Saint Lucia Parrot commonly called Jacquot (Amazona versicolor) wings elevated and addorsed and in the beak of each a Frond of the Fern Polypoduim all proper
Motto: The land, The people, The light
Samoa
Shield: Barry wavy of six Argent and Azure, green coconut palm
Motto: Fa'avae i le Atua Samoa "God be the Foundation of Samoa"
Serbia
Shield: Gules, between two fleurs-de-lys in base Or, a crowned double-headed eagle displayed inverted Argent, armed, beaked and langued Or, surmounted by an escutcheon Gules thereon a cross between four firesteels Argent
Supporters: Wreath of laurel and oak
Seychelles
Shield: Argent, a Female Sea coconut palm
Supporters: On either side a Sail Fish (Istiophorus gladius) proper
Motto: FINIS CORONAT OPUS "The End Crowns the Work"
Solomon Islands
Crest: On a helmet guardant, lambrequined Argent and Azure, a Solomon Islands war canoe proper and a Sun radiant Or
Torse: Argent and azure
Shield: Azure, turtle Argent
Supporters: On the dexter, a Crocodile, and on the sinister a Shark, both proper
Compartment: A stylised two-headed Frigate bird Sable
Motto: To Lead Is to Serve
Somalia
Shield: Azure, star argent
Supporters: two Leopards
Compartment: two spears, two palm leaves
South Africa
Shield: Or, representations of two San human figures of red ochre
Supporters: two springbok
Compartment: Below the shield, on a compartment grassed Vert, two Proteas each with two flower heads proper.
Motto: ǃke e꞉ ǀxarra ǁke "Diverse People Unite" in Xam
Tajikistan
Shield: Azure, seven pointed star Argent
Compartment: Wheat and Cotton
Tanzania
Shield: Torch enflamed proper, Barry wavy Argent and Azure
Supporters: A representation of Mount Kilimanjaro. Elephant tusks are supported by a man and a woman, with a clove bush at the feet of the man and a cotton bush at the feet of the woman.
Motto: Uhuru na Umoja "Freedom and Unity" (Swahili)
Tonga
Crest: the Royal Crown of Tonga within an olive wreath.
Shield: gules,mullet of six points argent charged with a cross couped gules.
Supporters: Flags of Tonga
Motto: Ko e ʻOtua mo Tonga ko hoku Tofiʻa "God and Tonga are my inheritance"
Trinidad and Tobago
Shield: Per chevron enhanced sable and gules, a chevronel enhanced argent between in chief two hummingbirds respectant Or and in base three ships of the period of Christopher Columbus also Or, the sails set proper.
Supporters: A scarlet ibis and a cocrico, both proper and with wings elevated.
Compartment: Two islands arising from the sea.
Motto: "Together we aspire, together we achieve"
Turkmenistan
Shield: Azure, crescent and five stars Argent
Compartment: Wheat and Cotton
Uzbekistan
Shield: Azure, crescent and star Argent
Compartment: Wheat and Cotton
Zimbabwe
Crest: Great Zimbabwe Bird or.
Shield: Vert, a representation of a portion of the Great Zimbabwe proper (Malvern 2021); on a chief argent seven palets wavy azure.
Supporters: On either side a kudu proper.
Compartment: An earthen mount adorned with stalks of wheat, a cotton boll and a head of maize, all proper.
Motto: UNITY, FREEDOM, WORK

https://minimalfreaks.co/2024/04/beatport-the-april-shortlist-2024-465-tracks/
Beatport The Shortlist Afro House April 2024

1. Bora Uzer – I Will Find You (JAMIIE Extended Remix) 07:25 120bpm 8A
2. Maz (BR), Antdot, Letícia Fialho – Corpo e Canção (Original Mix) 06:21 122bpm 10A
3. Contra, Skrillex, Ahadadream, Priya Ragu – TAKA (Extended Mix) 03:26 128bpm 8A
4. Francis Mercier, Kizz Daniel – Too Busy To Be Bae (Francis Mercier Remix) 04:51 120bpm 11A
5. Bruno G-Star – Massive (Original Mix) 07:42 121bpm 10B
6. Gina Jeanz – Take Me (Original Mix) 05:15 122bpm 7B
7. FiNE (official), Enoo Napa, Idd Aziz – Kidonda (Enoo Napa Remix) 07:30 120bpm 5A
8. Aero Manyelo – Mpoo (Original Mix) 07:45 122bpm 11A
9. Rodriguez Jr., Darque, Thandi Draai – Yonke (Rodriguez Jr. Remix) 05:48 124bpm 7A
10. Thabo Tonick – Joyboy (Original Mix) 06:05 116bpm 12A
11. Skeleton Army, Rockin Moroccin – Touch (Extended Mix) 07:22 122bpm 10B
12. Lizwi, Nariz (IL), Joezi – Omama Feat. Lizwi (Original Mix) 06:02 122bpm 10B
13. Madmotormiquel, Sakhe The Conqueror, Anna Almani, Sir Eric – Ndibolekeni (Cincity Space Mix) 06:16 123bpm 8A
14. Idd Aziz, Ginton – Mia Pembe (Original Mix) 05:47 125bpm 2B
15. Sky White – Olha Você (Original Mix) 06:27 122bpm 12B
16. Marasi – Opera (Original Mix) 05:14 124bpm 10B
17. Gledd – New Roots (Original Mix) 05:03 121bpm 1B
18. Jane Ryse – Under The Sun (Kususa Remix – Extended Mix) 05:55 121bpm 2A
19. Eli Fola – Agogo (Native P. Remix) 06:27 120bpm 6A
20. Tommy Farrow, Arodes – Let’s Just (Arodes Remix) 06:03 123bpm 6A

Beatport The Shortlist Bass / Club April 2024

1. Kaval – Through the Woods (Original Mix) 04:40 78bpm 2A
2. DJ Polo – If the Glove Fits (Original Mix) 04:19 112bpm 4A
3. GUAVA (UK) – 140 Drums (Original Mix) 04:39 140bpm 11A
4. Jd. Reid – plug (Original Mix) 03:45 128bpm 7A
5. Gafacci, Sam Interface – Brekete (Original Mix) 03:21 102bpm 1A
6. Rp Boo – Battle In The Jungle (Original Mix) 03:43 78bpm 9A
7. Dyslecta – Genestealer (Original Mix) 04:24 136bpm 6A
8. 3Phaz – Reset (Original Mix) 03:27 88bpm 8B
9. Bryte, mina (1) – Follow Me (Original Mix) 03:09 130bpm 12B
10. Mulholland – 442 Wenger (Original Mix) 04:48 147bpm 2B
11. Will Hofbauer – Ah! Bats! (Original Mix) 05:54 136bpm 2B
12. Bjork, Jlin – Borealis feat. Björk (Original Mix) 04:06 80bpm 4A
13. Debba – Just Wanna (Pluralist Remix) 05:17 91bpm 9B
14. Logan_olm, RHR – DIAGONAL (Original Dub) 04:38 145bpm 9B
15. Murder He Wrote – Switched (Original Mix) 04:09 126bpm 11A
16. Theorist – Xchange (Original Mix) 05:27 95bpm 7B
17. Throwing Snow – Hear The Tongue Fork (Original Mix) 03:47 110bpm 12A
18. EQ Why – Whoop That Boy (Clean) 02:36 160bpm 11A
19. Eyeza, Diessa – Penitent Engine (Original Mix) 06:06 80bpm 5A
20. Scratcha DVA, Omagoqa – Drillers (Original Mix) 03:52 127bpm 10B

Beatport The Shortlist Bass House April 2024

1. Jay Hardway – On My Way (Extended Mix) 03:15 128bpm 4A
2. Dillon Francis, Alesso, Tisoki, Clementine Douglas – Free (Tisoki Remix) 02:24 140bpm 7B
3. Feed Me – Hyper Harmonic (Original Mix) 03:41 140bpm 10B
4. Swalenz – Badman (Original Mix) 02:57 130bpm 8A
5. Mike Epsse, Confession – Landlord (Original Mix) 04:15 128bpm 7A
6. Pickle, ACRAZE, NKY – Runny Nose (Extended Mix) 04:23 131bpm 7B
7. Biscits, TOBEHONEST – I Am The One (Original Mix) 05:55 127bpm 9A
8. Dread MC, Duckworthsound, Duckplates – The Grind (Original Mix) 03:45 130bpm 4A
9. Crookers, Altea – TNXBYE (Original Mix) 05:01 101bpm 11A
10. No Thanks – Oldskool (Original Mix) 03:45 128bpm 9B
11. Martin Garrix, Seth Hills – Biochemical (Extended Mix) 03:37 126bpm 6B
12. Jack Beats – Stairs To Nowhere (Original Mix) 04:33 130bpm 7A
13. Infected Mushroom, Mr. Bill – Rawthentic (Original Mix) 03:41 134bpm 6A
14. Fedde Le Grand – Here Comes That Sound (Extended Mix) 04:21 125bpm 4A
15. Gene Farris, Basura Boyz – Mentally In Miami (Original Mix) 04:17 128bpm 6A
16. Faustix, MAKJ – Trouble (Extended Mix) 03:33 132bpm 9B
17. SEGO – MALIBU MARY (Kaskade Extended Remix) 05:54 126bpm 8A
18. Ekonovah – Pitch Bend (Extended Mix) 04:06 127bpm 7B
19. Filex – Phat Beat (Extended Mix) 03:50 125bpm 8A
20. Scrufizzer, NuBass – Boom (Original Mix) 03:28 130bpm 4A

Beatport The Shortlist Dance Electro Pop April 2024

1. FREAK ON – Let The Music Play (Extended Mix) 06:01 126bpm 5A
2. BLOND:ISH, ForgiveMeTommy! – We Like To Party (Rework) 07:12 125bpm 9B
3. Kygo – Whatever (with Ava Max) – Tiësto Remix (Original Mix) 02:45 126bpm 5B
4. Axwell /\ Ingrosso – More Than You Know (Mont Rouge Remix) 06:45 123bpm 4A
5. CHANEY (UK) – Always (Me & You) (Extended Mix) 05:33 127bpm 5B
6. Calvin Harris, Rag’n’Bone Man – Lovers In A Past Life (Westend Remix) 04:55 130bpm 11B
7. Ink, The Chainsmokers, Zerb – Addicted feat. Ink (Extended) 03:28 120bpm 4A
8. Purple Disco Machine, Asdis – Beat of Your Heart (Marten Hørger Extended Remix) 05:33 127bpm 5B
9. Seven Lions, Illenium, Asdis – Not Even Love (Original Mix) 04:05 130bpm 11A
10. Cascada, Jax Jones, Zoe Wees – Never Be Lonely (Cascada Extended Remix) 02:55 142bpm 4A
11. Joanna Cooke, Maur – All For You (feat. Joanna Cooke) (Extended Mix) 06:05 126bpm 5A
12. Rezident, Ekko Music – Only For A Moment feat. Ekko (Extended Mix) 06:43 125bpm 7A
13. D.O.D – Sun Is Shining (Extended Mix) 04:07 132bpm 10B
14. David Guetta, Galantis, 5 Seconds Of Summer – Lighter (Extended Mix) 03:48 125bpm 2B
15. Bob Sinclar, Annalisa – Sinceramente (Bob Sinclar Remix Extended) 04:26 126bpm 2A
16. Solardo, Stevie Appleton – The Juice (Extended Mix) 05:51 132bpm 7A
17. Maur, Rose Moncado – Say It Right (Extended Mix) 06:04 129bpm 4A
18. Above & Beyond, Zoe Johnston – Crazy Love feat. Zoë Johnston (ANUQRAM Extended Mix) 06:18 124bpm 9A
19. Qrion – Miyanosawa (Extended Mix) 05:42 124bpm 3A
20. Armin van Buuren, Anne Gudrun – Love Is A Drug feat. Anne Gudrun (Agents Of Time Extended Remix) 05:01 126bpm 11A

Beatport The Shortlist Deep House April 2024

1. Synaptic Voyager – Ne Plus Ultra (Extended Version) 07:27 133bpm 1A
2. Vitess – First Night (Original Mix) 05:03 131bpm 11B
3. Jesse Bru – Birds In Flight (Original Mix) 05:03 129bpm 8A
4. Demi Riquísimo – The Force (Extended) 07:27 130bpm 8B
5. CC:DISCO! – Guitar Hero (Original Mix) 04:12 123bpm 11B
6. Inner City, Steffanie Christi’an – Stop & Stare feat. Steffanie Christi’an (Cinthie Extended Remix) 05:53 127bpm 6A
7. Marius (fr) – Scooba Receptor (Original Mix) 05:35 128bpm 3A
8. Mr. Ho – 000 BABY (Original Mix) 06:36 150bpm 10B
9. DJ Steaw – Exotica (Original Mix) 06:41 125bpm 7B
10. Lawrence – Stargazer (Original Mix) 06:09 128bpm 8A
11. Zoi (CA) – Resolute (Original Mix) 05:29 124bpm 9A
12. Havantepe – Calcite (Cristi Cons Remix) 06:45 128bpm 10B
13. Bernardo Mota – All In One (Original Mix) 05:46 96bpm 10A
14. Big Miz, Bessa (Sco) – Marvelous (Original Mix) 04:53 126bpm 8A
15. Fort Romeau – Blue (Original Mix) 05:18 130bpm 2A
16. Fouk – Coffee (Original Mix) 06:44 125bpm 12B
17. Smev – In With the New (Original Mix) 06:24 131bpm 5A
18. Max Essa, Eddie C – Save Me (Original Mix) 03:48 115bpm 8A
19. Occibel – How Low Can You Go (Original Mix) 07:00 130bpm 10B
20. Katerina – Papu (Original Mix) 08:03 135bpm 9A

Beatport The Shortlist Drum n Bass April 2024

1. Ed Rush – Steppin Out (Original Mix) 04:33 86bpm 12B
2. Atmos – Froggy Breakbeat (Original Mix) 04:31 153bpm 7A
3. DJ Marky – Star Trippin’ (Original Mix) 04:49 87bpm 5A
4. Bladerunner – The Chronic (Original Mix) 04:08 110bpm 10A
5. Skuff – Bad Naan (Original Mix) 04:37 130bpm 9A
6. Inja, Particle – The Message (Original Mix) 03:00 87bpm 1B
7. Umbra – Moving Purpose (Original Mix) 04:34 87bpm 10A
8. Simula – Behemoth (Original Mix) 04:28 88bpm 7A
9. Visages – Panacea (Original Mix) 05:13 87bpm 7A
10. Drumsound & Bassline Smith – Hardcore Junglist (Original Mix) 03:46 87bpm 7B
11. Sully, Salo – Nights (Vocal Mix) 04:30 164bpm 10B
12. Calyx – Tempest VIP (Original Mix) 05:02 86bpm 9A
13. Rizzle, Verbz, Operate, Catching Cairo – Active (Original Mix) 02:17 87bpm 7A
14. skantia – Pulse (Original Mix) 04:12 86bpm 6B
15. Persona, MC Spyda, Zapya – Pon Mi Side (Original Mix) 04:27 88bpm 9A
16. Levela – Funk Trippin (Original Mix) 03:26 86bpm 1A
17. Bcee, Philippa Hanna – Back to the Street (L-Side Remix) 03:47 87bpm 8A
18. GEST – Escalate (Original Mix) 03:29 87bpm 4A
19. Spectral (UK) – Submerge (Original Mix) 03:16 67bpm 1A
20. Sofia, Mozey – Run (Part 1) (Original Mix) 03:00 154bpm 4A

Beatport The Shortlist Funky House April 2024

1. Christian (IT) – Ain’t Nobody 2024 (Original Mix) 04:51 120bpm 3A
2. Jackers Revenge, Martina Budde – How Do I Know (Original Mix) 05:07 126bpm 2A
3. Eugenio Fico – Street Sounds (Original Mix) 05:16 126bpm 8A
4. Laurent Simeca – Its Gonna Be (Original Mix) 04:13 127bpm 12B
5. Block & Crown – Thinkin’ About (The Beat Goes On) (Original Mix) 05:07 124bpm 10A
6. Sentinel Groove, Galluzzo – 2B Real (Original Mix) 04:25 123bpm 5A
7. Ministry Of Funk – In your Arms Tonite (Deep Groove Mix) 05:00 128bpm 10A
8. Jackers Revenge – Chant Again (Original Mix) 04:10 124bpm 10A
9. Block & Crown – Dancefloor (Original Mix) 04:19 124bpm 3A
10. SG Lewis, Chloé Caillet – Costa (Extended Mix) 05:23 125bpm 3A
11. GhostMasters – Give It To The Funk (Club Mix) 04:48 124bpm 8B
12. Ministry Of Funk, DJ Hat – Missing (Original Mix) 04:28 125bpm 8A
13. Luca Bisori – Let the Fog Clear (Original Mix) 06:34 128bpm 12B
14. Disco Gurls – Bombastik (Extended Mix) 04:07 124bpm 10B
15. Sean Finn, No Hopes – What a Bam (Block & Crown Dope Demand Extended Remix) 04:38 125bpm 11A
16. Disco Gurls – La La Song (Extended Mix) 04:16 117bpm 1B
17. Nari, Steve Tosi – Sweet Deep (Original Mix) 04:43 126bpm 5A
18. Block & Crown – Play That Funky Music (Original Mix) 05:13 124bpm 9A
19. Jackers Revenge – Black Or White (Original Mix) 04:36 126bpm 12B
20. Ghostbusterz – Every Woman (Original Mix) 04:40 124bpm 5A

Beatport The Shortlist Hard Techno April 2024

1. Rebekah, Malke – The Way (Original Mix) 06:11 152bpm 12A
2. Perc – Full Goblin (Original Mix) 05:19 146bpm 5A
3. CARAVEL, TELETECH – Unfaithful (Original Mix) 05:38 78bpm 3B
4. Marco Leckbert – Schranz Will Never Die (Original Mix) 06:04 158bpm 8A
5. OGUZ – WE ARE MONASTERIO (Original Mix) 05:59 154bpm 8B
6. Reinier Zonneveld – Sonar (Original Mix) 05:29 150bpm 12A
7. Fatima Hajji – Adrenalina (Original Mix) 06:15 143bpm 8A
8. Niereich, Sandro Mure – Soichiro Yagami (Original Mix) 07:08 150bpm 7B
9. MOIA – Nirvana (Original Mix) 07:21 75bpm 8B
10. Tripped – This Does Not Contain Rave Stabs (Original Mix) 05:49 155bpm 10A
11. Aida Arko – Trinity (Fernanda Martins Remix) 05:38 150bpm 1A
12. CANCEL – Sunken World (Wanton Remix) 04:06 140bpm 7B
13. Freak Unique – Programmed To Kill (Svetec Remix) 05:41 151bpm 10A
14. STRISC. – 012.3 (Original Mix) 06:00 150bpm 5A
15. Greg Notill – The Game (Original Mix) 06:33 156bpm 7B
16. NONĀ (PL) – E240 (Original Mix) 05:08 150bpm 5A
17. Veseli – Murderous Intentions (Original Mix) 06:06 157bpm 5A
18. Alex TB – When I Techno (Juliana Yamasaki Remix) 05:38 148bpm 12A
19. SlugoS – Dressed In Decay (Original Mix) 04:34 90bpm 6A
20. MarAxe – Gilgamesh (Original Mix) 05:46 97bpm 9A
21. Auriga (SP) – Kiliye (Original Mix) 05:09 150bpm 1B

Beatport The Shortlist House April 2024

1. St. David – Work The Klubb (Extended Mix) 07:20 127bpm 10A
2. Blaze – Breathe (Natasha Diggs Extended Remix) 05:50 123bpm 6A
3. Candidate (UK) – Rock The Scratch (Original Mix) 06:47 129bpm 3A
4. Kristin Velvet – Rhyme by Rhyme (Original Mix) 04:40 127bpm 8B
5. Orange Muse – Keep The Funk Alive (Jazz-N-Groove Primetime Extended Mix) 06:24 127bpm 11A
6. DJ Deep – What’s Going On (Original Mix) 06:13 124bpm 3A
7. Mr. V, DJ Steaw – Take It There feat. Mr. V (Original Mix) 08:09 126bpm 1B
8. Tensnake, Paul Rudder – Nostalgic Feelings (Tensnake Remix) 06:23 127bpm 3A
9. Fred P, Cassy – Château Dance (Original Mix) 05:43 126bpm 3B
10. Key To Life, Sabrina Johnston – Forever feat. Sabrina Johnston (Michael Gray Extended Remix) 07:11 122bpm 1B
11. IDRIS – La Trumpeta (Extended Mix) 05:37 95bpm 7B
12. RUZE – Mister DJ (Original Mix) 06:15 128bpm 8A
13. Wallace – BB (Original Mix) 05:07 128bpm 10B
14. Bernardo Mota – Sheep Milk (Original Mix) 05:52 132bpm 4A
15. The Checkup – Keep On Rockin’ (Extended Mix) 07:24 127bpm 7B
16. Basile de Suresnes – BBB (Original Mix) 05:36 130bpm 3B
17. Ministers Of House – Ode To House Music (Jamie Lewis Spiritual Mix) 07:22 122bpm 10B
18. Masters At Work, Kenny Dope, Louie Vega – Lost Jig (Original Mix) 05:25 124bpm 11B
19. Rework – You’re So Just Just (CINTHIE Remix) 07:03 127bpm 1A
20. Alinka – Red Line (Original Mix) 05:33 128bpm 4A

Beatport The Shortlist Indie Dance April 2024

1. Jakob Mäder, Fairgold – Late Again (Sarah Wild Remix) 05:33 131bpm 2A
2. Renato Cohen, Joyce Muniz – No Haters (Extended Version) 06:27 120bpm 5A
3. Vladyslav Putistin & Lvcerate – Danza Industriale (Original Mix) 06:05 131bpm 3B
4. Deer Jade – Cosmic Dream (Original Mix) 05:15 125bpm 7B
5. Curses, Third Culture (USA) – Lost & Found (Original Mix) 05:11 125bpm 3A
6. Niv Ast – I Get Around (Shubostar Remix) 06:28 122bpm 8A
7. DJ Holographic – Aries (Original Mix) 04:47 128bpm 4A
8. Error 401 – Voices of the Synthverse (Original Mix) 06:29 131bpm 5A
9. Sascha Funke – Halle Weissensee (Original Mix) 05:48 132bpm 10A
10. Baldo – Ride the Night (Jennifer Loveless Remix) 05:52 128bpm 9A
11. Josh Caffe – Free World (Original Mix) 05:47 116bpm 9B
12. Argia – Anhelo (Original Mix) 05:28 118bpm 10B
13. Skatman – Devil Run (Original Mix) 05:18 127bpm 10B
14. Adana Twins, Upercent – Falling (Original Mix) 05:29 123bpm 6B
15. Vhyce – Elusive Framework (Original Mix) 07:01 126bpm 5A
16. Luke Alessi – $$$ (Original Mix) 06:34 127bpm 3B
17. Amount – Fantasy (Original Mix) 05:17 128bpm 4B
18. Lennart, Hands Off – Kamera (Local Suicide & Skelesys Remix) 04:13 125bpm 1A
19. WAHM (FR) – Rogue Embrace (Original Mix) 05:48 124bpm 1B
20. Yet More, Avangart Tabldot – I’ll Take That Back (Original Mix) 06:00 122bpm 11B
21. Bufi, Kubebe – Sternana (Balam Remix) 06:20 122bpm 11B

Beatport The Shortlist Jackin House April 2024

1. Theta State – On The Block (Demuir’s Playboi Edit) 06:12 126bpm 4B
2. Sprenner – Catch Me Now (Original Mix) 06:15 128bpm 5B
3. Ritmo Du Vela – El Jazz De Chicago (Original Mix) 05:05 126bpm 5B
4. Fatalgerian – Vendredi (Original Mix) 05:11 124bpm 10B
5. Makez – The Answer (Original Mix) 05:24 131bpm 3A
6. Dope Demeanors – I’ll Be Flexin’ (Original Mix) 05:55 126bpm 8A
7. L-Gil, Deeper DJ – Deepest (Original Mix) 06:11 124bpm 3A
8. Di Saronno – No More Hustlin’ (Original Mix) 06:14 123bpm 6A
9. Bob Sinclar – The Ghetto (Ian Pooley’s Paradisiaque Mix) 06:55 127bpm 4B
10. Hiast, AtLows – James Brown (Original Mix) 05:17 123bpm 10A
11. Vincent Caira – Go On (Original) 06:18 123bpm 10B
12. M-Squared – Standards (Original Mix) 05:01 124bpm 11A
13. Angelo Ferreri – Funky Crazy (Original Mix) 06:40 125bpm 4A
14. MAd Sequencers – Small Steps (Jackin Mix) 05:06 126bpm 4A
15. Sam Tyler – Groove Incarnate (Original Mix) 06:14 123bpm 5B
16. Hendt – In My Head (Original Mix) 05:25 124bpm 11B
17. Wattie Green – Up All Night (Original Mix) 05:59 123bpm 5A
18. SimplyB – Boom (Original Mix) 05:24 125bpm 7A
19. Raffaele Ciavolino – Early Days Of House (Original Mix) 05:00 124bpm 8A
20. Some Too Suspect – Phunki (Original Mix) 05:32 125bpm 8A

Beatport The Shortlist Mainstage April 2024

1. Layton Giordani – Paranoid (Extended Mix) 05:07 132bpm 1B
2. KREAM – So Hï (Extended Mix) 04:59 130bpm 12A
3. Mason, Princess Superstar – Perfect (Exceeder) (Oliver Heldens Extended Remix) 05:11 136bpm 3B
4. MOGUAI, Tiesto – Explode (Extended Mix) 04:16 128bpm 2A
5. Sander Van Doorn, Melissa de Kleine – High On You (feat. Melissa de Kleine) (Extended Mix) 05:24 126bpm 7B
6. Hardwell, Blasterjaxx, Maddix – 16 (Extended Mix) 05:10 145bpm 6B
7. David Guetta, MORTEN – The Future Is Now (Extended Mix) 04:40 125bpm 9B
8. Steve Angello, Still Young, T.D. Jakes – Rejoice (Still Young Extended Remix) 03:57 124bpm 6B
9. Dillon Francis, VINNE – Bad Cop (Extended Mix) 03:49 140bpm 8B
10. SICK INDIVIDUALS – Serenity (Extended Mix) 04:52 131bpm 11A
11. Evie, Skytech, Blinders – Feelings (That I Can’t Deny) feat. EVIE (Extended Mix) 04:24 130bpm 7B
12. Niko The Kid – Say Goodbye (Extended Mix) 04:54 129bpm 5B
13. Taylor Torrence – Feed Me Pills (Extended Mix) 03:41 135bpm 6B
14. nilsix – Old’s Cool (Extended Mix) 05:24 128bpm 7B
15. Nicky Romero – Turn Off The Lights (Extended VIP Mix) 03:54 128bpm 9A
16. Ben Nicky, Dr Phunk, Alok, Bebe Rexha – Deep In Your Love (Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Ben Nicky & Dr Phunk Extended Mix) 03:12 145bpm 11B
17. Giuseppe Ottaviani, Gabry Ponte, Malou – In My Mind feat. Malou (Extended Mix) 04:25 132bpm 4A
18. Will Sparks, Avao – Thunder (Extended Mix) 04:00 140bpm 6A
19. Plastik Funk, Bellini, Rave Republic – Samba De Janeiro (Extended Mix) 03:21 130bpm 11B
20. MEIRLIN – Spaceflight 2099 (Extended Mix) 03:52 135bpm 2B

Beatport The Shortlist Melodic April 2024

1. Chris Avantgarde, Anyma (ofc) – Eternity (Massano Remix – Extended Mix) 06:02 127bpm 8B
2. Hardt Antoine – Dove (Original Mix) 06:21 122bpm 5A
3. Layla Benitez – What Is Love? (Original Mix) 06:13 125bpm 4A
4. Olivier Giacomotto – Falling (Original Mix) 06:43 124bpm 9B
5. Coeus – Paramount (Original Mix) 05:51 126bpm 9B
6. Moullinex, GPU Panic – Bring the Lights Down (Elif Remix) 07:08 125bpm 7B
7. Argia – Soñar Contigo (Original Mix) 06:11 124bpm 11B
8. Djolee, Gespona – Malabares (Last Men On Earth Remix) 06:19 124bpm 6A
9. Sasha – Fleuron Drift (Original Mix) 07:10 126bpm 4A
10. Remcord – Wax (Original Mix) 07:07 123bpm 1A
11. Miss Monique – Bloom At Night (Extended Mix) 06:30 126bpm 7B
12. Konstantin Sibold, Adam Sellouk – The Dusk (Extended Mix) 06:02 123bpm 9B
13. Hard To Tell – African Sand (Original Mix) 05:33 123bpm 11B
14. Tal Fussman – Focus (Original Mix) 05:23 126bpm 12A
15. Alex Niggemann – Focus (Original Mix) 05:26 124bpm 12A
16. Yourr – Devotion (Original Mix) 05:55 121bpm 5A
17. David Lindmer – Awakening (Original Mix) 05:17 124bpm 9B
18. Sascha Braemer, UNDERHER – Hear Out (Original Mix) 05:04 120bpm 6B
19. Last Men On Earth – LMOE Presents… (DJ Mastering) 06:18 123bpm 1A
20. Blancah – Avante (Original Mix) 06:16 118bpm 8B
21. AIKON, Santiago Garcia, Aquarius Heaven – I Trust The Drums (Original Mix) 06:13 119bpm 10B

Beatport The Shortlist Minimal Deep Tech April 2024

1. Max Jacobson, Sakro – Chapter 16 Remember To Go Home (Original Mix) 09:59 133bpm 5A
2. Voigtmann – California Cruise Control (Original Mix) 07:17 129bpm 10A
3. Gus Bonani – Little Dumb Secret (Original Mix) 06:37 128bpm 4B
4. Dennis Quin – Call For House (Original Mix) 05:01 128bpm 5B
5. Aman, Silat Beksi – Rise (Original Mix) 07:35 127bpm 5A
6. Ferro – The Contrary (Original Mix) 07:02 128bpm 2A
7. Jonaku – No Limits (Original Mix) 07:02 128bpm 4A
8. Andrew Azara – Sprinkler (Original Mix) 06:16 128bpm 6A
9. Kawaii San – Ghost Town (Original Mix) 05:13 130bpm 2A
10. Alexis Raphael – Now with the Jazz (Original Mix) 05:54 130bpm 5A
11. Rupert Ellis – 3Dimension (Original Mix) 05:44 129bpm 11A
12. Project89 – Come To Me (Original Mix) 06:32 129bpm 2B
13. Arkady Antsyrev – My Favela (Original Mix) 08:31 128bpm 8A
14. Cristina Lazic – Luna (Original Mix) 06:22 128bpm 9A
15. Darius Syrossian – Evil Drummer (Original Mix) 05:19 128bpm 6A
16. EVIE (UK) – Kick It (Original Mix) 05:47 130bpm 2A
17. Eva Lansberg – End Of Winter (Original Mix) 07:04 129bpm 2B
18. David Gtronic, Guy From Downstairs – Forever (Original Mix) 06:09 126bpm 8A
19. Lourene, Jentzen – Feeling Connected (Original Mix) 07:05 128bpm 8A
20. KIRIK, ACA (YU) – We Walk (Don’t Stop) (Original Mix) 06:24 131bpm 5B

Beatport The Shortlist Nu Disco / Disco April 2024

1. Alma Negra – Madrugada (Yuksek Remix) 05:22 120bpm 9A
2. Max Essa, Eddie C – We Live In The Hills (Original Mix) 05:23 106bpm 1A
3. Kasper Bjørke, Toby Ernest – Tears We Haven’t Cried feat. Toby Ernest (Original Mix) 03:37 118bpm 12B
4. Odessa – Private Disco Show (Original Mix) 06:58 125bpm 8B
5. Pigmaliao – All The Way To Draa Oasis (Original) 05:27 133bpm 4B
6. Art Of Tones, Chatobaron – Ban the disco (Patchworks Remix) 06:23 126bpm 7A
7. George Cynnamon – Dizzy Dasco (Original Mix) 05:00 124bpm 10B
8. Andromeda Orchestra – Swing On (Dub Mix) 06:05 124bpm 9B
9. Alma Negra – Madrugada (Original Mix) 05:12 118bpm 9A
10. Ken@Work – We Told You (Sho’ Nuff) (Original Mix) 04:35 120bpm 5A
11. Charro Band De Emilio Guerrero – Movin (Original Mix) 03:17 129bpm 8A
12. Cerrone, The Knocks, Sofi Tukker – One On One (Cerrone Extended Mix) 06:12 124bpm 11B
13. FUTVRST – The Feeling (Original Mix) 05:51 118bpm 1A
14. Leslie Lello – Better Together (Original Mix) 04:04 122bpm 10B
15. Don Carlos, Micky More & Andy Tee – The Music Of Your Mind (Groove Culture Instrumental) 07:29 124bpm 9B
16. Kapote – The Party (Extended Version) 07:54 130bpm 11A
17. Luxxury – Strangely Familiar (Instrumental) 03:04 130bpm 8B
18. Roy Ayers, Merry Clayton – What’s The T? (Delfonic Edit) 05:27 118bpm 6A
19. Hatiras – Starlight (Radio Edit) 04:23 126bpm 9A
20. Munk, James Murphy – Kick Out the Chairs (Whomadewho Remix) 03:23 102bpm 1A

Beatport The Shortlist Organic House April 2024

1. Amonita – Rainbow (Original Mix) 08:13 122bpm 5A
2. Sebastien Leger – Kasiope (Original Mix) 07:46 120bpm 8A
3. Tim Green, Dulus – Silver Fade (Original Mix) 08:41 122bpm 8A
4. Kora (CA), Madota – Feel (Original Mix) 07:06 125bpm 5A
5. Roni Iron – Inside My Head (Extended Mix) 05:28 120bpm 7A
6. BT – Time Moves So Fast (PROFF & Volen Sentir’s Timestop Extended Remix) 08:31 122bpm 3B
7. Dodeca – Kiowa (Original Mix) 06:50 122bpm 7A
8. Nohan – Move (Original Mix) 09:07 122bpm 8B
9. Trilucid – Stories In Light (Extended Mix) 07:02 123bpm 8A
10. Minoas Cirillo, ReiRei – Ruins (Extended Mix) 08:32 120bpm 9A
11. Maxi Degrassi, Ale Russo, Franco Dalmati – Silk And Satin (Extended Mix) 07:43 122bpm 12A
12. Newman (I Love) – Leave In Silence (Original Mix) 07:15 124bpm 9A
13. Orbit, Parra for Cuva – Pinie (Original Mix) 03:50 115bpm 4A
14. CaHen – Rigel (Domingo + Loveclub Extended Remix) 08:12 121bpm 12A
15. Monojoke – Daruma (Original Mix) 08:29 122bpm 2B
16. JanuaryOne, Alley SA – Stay feat. Sam Alaina (Original Mix) 07:39 119bpm 6A
17. DAF (FR) – El Cielo (Extended Mix) 07:36 120bpm 7A
18. Fabian Krooss, Frida Darko – Phoenix (Original Mix) 06:19 115bpm 7A
19. Sarkis Mikael, Nhii – Synthronize (Raw Main Remix) 07:53 122bpm 1A
20. Maxi Degrassi – I’m Happy for You (Molac and Nicolas Viana Remix) 06:49 123bpm 12A

Beatport The Shortlist Progressive House April 2024

1. Beckers, D-Nox – Astral (Original Mix) 07:17 94bpm 10A
2. Spencer Brown – Fellas (Original Mix) 04:40 123bpm 6A
3. Tantum – Contact High (Original Mix) 06:56 120bpm 3B
4. Dmitry Molosh – Station (Original Mix) 07:10 121bpm 10B
5. Mike Griego – Trash Can (Original Mix) 08:20 123bpm 9B
6. Ivan Aliaga – Black Whale (Original Mix) 07:16 120bpm 6B
7. Hyunji-A – Softly (Club Mix) 07:02 120bpm 8A
8. Kiasmos – Told (Original Mix) 05:39 127bpm 12B
9. Ian O’Donovan – Frontier (Original Mix) 09:25 124bpm 11A
10. Just Her – Left Behind (Club Mix) 06:49 122bpm 5A
11. Hicky & Kalo – Views From Almagro (Extended Mix) 06:51 123bpm 6A
12. Maze 28 – Aer8 (Original Mix) 07:24 122bpm 10B
13. EANP, Tinga – Parallel Rabbit (Original Mix) 08:00 121bpm 10B
14. Tomas Briski – Hyacinth (Original Mix) 07:51 123bpm 8B
15. Porra, Alto Astral – Looking for You (Original Mix) 06:37 122bpm 8A
16. Jaap Ligthart, Jochem Hamerling – Slope (Original Mix) 07:02 124bpm 4A
17. Robert Babicz – Black Moon (Original Mix) 07:45 124bpm 9A
18. Kabi (AR), Agustín Ficarra – The Return (Original Mix) 06:52 123bpm 2B
19. Wolfframm – Lucid (Original Mix) 06:06 121bpm 7A
20. ISMAIL.M, Redspace – One More Day (Original Mix) 06:06 122bpm 6A

Beatport The Shortlist Tech House April 2024

1. Matthias Tanzmann, Black Circle – Procession (Extended Version) 07:04 127bpm 11A
2. Glaxxs – Afrika (Extended Mix) 05:03 128bpm 4B
3. Kamino, Ky William – Gravity (Original Mix) 06:11 130bpm 11A
4. WeMart – Alien Attack (Original Mix) 06:30 128bpm 10A
5. Bryan Softwell – Visitors (Original Mix) 07:10 126bpm 2A
6. Pako Ramirez – Don’t Forget (Extended Mix) 06:28 129bpm 8A
7. Manuel De La Mare, Luigi Rocca – Cuba Libre (Extended Mix) 05:07 128bpm 1A
8. Buogo – Rave It (Original Mix) 06:02 130bpm 7A
9. WeMart – Music Please (Original Mix) 06:20 128bpm 5A
10. SIDE B, Samuele Scelfo – Vibrate (Original Mix) 05:32 129bpm 7B
11. Kevin York – Busting Like (Original Mix) 06:00 128bpm 1B
12. Sirus Hood, Trangaz – Ghetto Corazon (Original Mix) 05:33 131bpm 1A
13. Harvy Valencia, Beltran (BR) – Origins (3AM Tusi Mix) 06:27 129bpm 6A
14. Copasetic – Situations (Original Mix) 05:55 130bpm 10A
15. Freenzy Music – Gimme That Beat (Original Mix) 05:39 130bpm 3A
16. Angel Heredia – QUE RICO (Original Mix) 05:52 128bpm 1A
17. Jay de Lys – Babylon (Original Mix) 06:35 128bpm 7A
18. Calvin Clarke – Boogie Sensation (Original Mix) 07:16 128bpm 7A
19. Figueredo (AR), Matías Schaller – Rizz (Original Mix) 06:02 127bpm 11B
20. Oravla Ziur – OnlyFans (Original Mix) 06:00 128bpm 8B

Beatport The Shortlist Techno (Peak Time / Driving) April 2024

1. Marie Vaunt – ADSR (Original Mix) 06:14 136bpm 2A
2. Dok & Martin – Dimensional (Original Mix) 06:11 135bpm 8A
3. Carbon – Fragmented Reality (Original Mix) 06:38 128bpm 9B
4. Thomas Schumacher, Technohead – The Passion 2024 (Original Mix) 05:54 140bpm 9B
5. Wehbba – Nitro (Original Mix) 05:56 68bpm 12B
6. Perpetual Universe – Heat Death ((Mateo! Remix)) 05:47 65bpm 5A
7. Drunken Kong – Higher State (Original Mix) 06:21 136bpm 6B
8. Martin Books – Push (Original Mix) 04:37 132bpm 12A
9. Marco Carbone – Helios (Original Mix) 06:14 138bpm 9B
10. Space 92 – Robot (Original Mix) 05:14 138bpm 9B
11. Gizmo & Mac – Rush (Original Mix) 05:44 135bpm 9B
12. Monococ – Impact (Original Mix) 06:09 126bpm 5B
13. Monika Kruse – Flashback 98 (Original Mix) 06:34 136bpm 6B
14. Mattia Saviolo, Subject32 – Valkyrie (Original Mix) 06:14 136bpm 12A
15. Drumsauw – Focus (Original Mix) 06:30 69bpm 1A
16. Kaiserdisco – In the Music (Original Mix) 07:07 132bpm 7B
17. Roger Lavelle – Cold Resistance (Original Mix) 06:09 132bpm 4B
18. Cosmic Boys, Franco Smith – Futura (Original Mix) 05:11 134bpm 7B
19. Benefice, Advokate – Fury (Original Mix) 05:03 142bpm 2B
20. BYOR – Thunder (Extended Mix) 03:31 127bpm 1A

Beatport The Shortlist Techno (Raw Deep Hypnotic) April 2024

1. Pfirter – Infinity (Obscur Remix) 05:43 136bpm 7A
2. Maccari – Process 1 (KaioBarssalos Remix) 04:55 144bpm 1A
3. Zisko – Rhythm & Seduction (Original Mix) 05:38 140bpm 10B
4. Jonas Kopp, Staffan Linzatti – 1.CO.LAB 009 A (Original Mix) 04:19 137bpm 12B
5. Temudo – U Were My Second First Choice (Original Mix) 07:07 104bpm 2A
6. Dustin Zahn – Catharsis (Original Mix) 05:06 132bpm 8A
7. 23.4 – Artefacts (Original Mix) 05:21 146bpm 8B
8. Conrad Van Orton – Alive And Kicking (Original Mix) 06:34 90bpm 5A
9. Regent – Occult (Original Mix) 06:24 72bpm 11B
10. Mark Broom – VV2 (Original Mix) 03:30 141bpm 5B
11. William Marqs – No.0117 (Original Mix) 05:14 142bpm 6B
12. Dave Wincent – New Weapons (Original Mix) 04:58 141bpm 6B
13. Fibre Optixx – What Is Love (Original Mix) 04:44 137bpm 11A
14. Phara – Rhythm Sticks (Original Mix) 05:56 140bpm 8A
15. RONY Group – Gushers (Original Mix) 05:08 137bpm 9A
16. Len Faki – Voices (Arthur Robert Remix) 05:45 73bpm 6A
17. STIPP, Genex – Out of Turn (Original Mix) 06:20 144bpm 9B
18. Altinbas – Tide (Original Mix) 05:00 142bpm 11B
19. OFF / GRID – One Stab Ahead (Original Mix) 05:23 145bpm 1A
20. Oscar Mulero – Act of Giving (Original Mix) 05:04 128bpm 11B
21. Psyk, Orbe – Atonal (Original Mix) 06:35 136bpm 3B
22. Yrsen, Linear System – Fractal Shift (Original Mix) 05:39 139bpm 7A

Beatport The Shortlist Trance (Raw Deep Hypnotic) April 2024

1. Sioc – Cascade (Original Mix) 05:34 155bpm 6B
2. DINA – The Climax (Original Mix) 06:31 160bpm 9B
3. Nickon Faith – Digital Moss (FROND Remix) 06:27 134bpm 6B
4. Exotek – Awareness (Original Mix) 07:44 126bpm 8B
5. Sharpson, S.U.R.E., Boy Racer – URS&MINE (Original Mix) 03:47 150bpm 4B
6. Khetama – Green Flow (Original Mix) 06:25 137bpm 8B
7. DJ Ali – Winds Of Fate (Original Mix) 07:28 150bpm 6A
8. Hoymans – Traverser les ères (Faster Horses Remix) 06:27 149bpm 6A
9. CIS – Cut It (Original) 04:52 145bpm 8B
10. Emo Rollercoaster – Shine Bright (Original Mix) 05:12 150bpm 5A
11. Eitan Reiter, Jerome C – 1994 (Eitan Reiter Remix) 06:05 127bpm 4B
12. Airwave – The World vs Spotify (Extended Mix) 05:26 132bpm 9A
13. Paffendorf – Be Cool (Startone Remix [Remastered]) 07:32 141bpm 4A
14. E.DN – Nightvision (Arkane Remix) 05:17 110bpm 5A
15. Kay Deet – Rave 2000 (Original Mix) 06:24 70bpm 9B
16. Teenage Bad Girl, Leo Pol – Pull Yourself Together (Leo Pol Remix) 05:40 138bpm 11A
17. Peppe Amore – Steamy (Original Mix) 05:59 145bpm 8B
18. Der Dritte Raum – Lava (2024 Remastered Version) 08:25 135bpm 4B
19. Beat Bizarre – Initial Meld (Original Mix) 09:33 126bpm 8B
20. Vladimir Dubyshkin – glucose guardian (Original Mix) 05:10 140bpm 7A

Beatport The Shortlist Trance (Main Floor) April 2024

1. AA Meeting – The Road Ahead (Extended Mix) 07:16 142bpm 8A
2. Paffendorf – Be Cool (Hiver & Hammer Remix [Remastered]) 07:42 70bpm 4B
3. Activa, Glynn Alan – Titration (Glynn Alan Extended Remix) 07:50 132bpm 9A
4. Nu NRG – Dreamland (G&M Project Remix) 07:30 140bpm 8A
5. Jordan Suckley – Warp Speed (Liam Wilson & The Technicians Extended Remix) 05:42 134bpm 11A
6. Scott Richardson – Blueberry (Extended Mix) 08:32 135bpm 8B
7. Scott Mac – Damager 02 (Eryon Stocker Extended Remix) 06:44 140bpm 8A
8. Casey Rasch – Glassy (Extended) 05:51 140bpm 4A
9. Asteroid, Pharos T – Euphoric Dreams (Extended Mix) 07:12 140bpm 6A
10. Armin van Buuren, Gryffin – What Took You So Long (Extended Mix) 07:22 140bpm 5A
11. Miikka L – Feel It Again (Extended Mix) 06:38 138bpm 9A
12. Phillip Castle – A Call For Help (Extended Mix) 05:56 128bpm 5A
13. Cold Blue, Nicole Willerton – All I See Is You (Extended Mix) 07:39 140bpm 12B
14. Craig Connelly – Perseverance (Extended Mix) 07:39 140bpm 9A
15. Renegade System – I’m Afraid of The Dark (Extended Mix) 05:32 140bpm 11A
16. Skyvol – Intergalactic Filarmony (Extended Mix) 05:34 135bpm 9B
17. Spray, Long Island Sound – Fracture (Spray Remix) 07:21 137bpm 8B
18. Corey Croft – Silver Bullet (Extended Mix) 06:04 131bpm 9A
19. Gary Maguire – More To Do (Original Mix) 06:54 142bpm 11A
20. Frank Ayala – True Essence (Extended Mix) 04:58 135bpm 2A

Beatport The Shortlist UK Garage / Bassline April 2024

1. Jeremy Sylvester, Maria Labelle – Yard Vibes (Original Mix) 05:10 66bpm 4A
2. Cutty Ranks, Oppidan – Armed & Dangerous (Original Mix) 03:54 133bpm 2B
3. Champion, Killa P, Bushbaby – We Multiply (Original Mix) 03:49 135bpm 8A
4. Club Angel – Stylin’ (Original Mix) 03:44 140bpm 11A
5. Bullet Tooth – YOUR LOVE (Original Mix) 03:14 140bpm 7B
6. Muse Groove, Bartolome – WUW (Original Mix) 07:29 133bpm 11A
7. Stixy D – Eardrums (VIP Mix) 05:39 131bpm 8B
8. DJ Hybrid – Flex Ya Chest (Original Mix) 02:51 140bpm 11A
9. Jack Walker (UK) – Bass Echo (Original Mix) 06:32 133bpm 9B
10. ODF – B-Side Bubbler (Original Mix) 05:09 132bpm 4A
11. DJ Cosworth – Ruff & Rugged (Original Mix) 05:51 143bpm 2B
12. Ell Murphy – Pressure (Extended Mix) 04:13 130bpm 7A
13. DJ Jackum – Noise Inside (Original Mix) 04:07 132bpm 4A
14. Dubplate Pressure – Gotta Be Free (Original Mix) 05:17 130bpm 6A
15. March 13 – I Need It Now (Original Mix) 04:26 135bpm 5A
16. Skeptic, Sophia Violet – Want Me (Extended Mix) 05:45 137bpm 7A
17. Angel D’lite – Cloud 69 (Local Group Remix) 05:56 137bpm 5A
18. SICARIA – Freak 2 Freak (Introspekt Remix) 04:10 140bpm 3A
19. Fonzo – 121 (Original Mix) 03:56 134bpm 3A
20. Devstar – Gorgeous George (Extended Mix) 05:43 130bpm 5A

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Before even achieving superluminal travel, Terrans suffered under catastrophes that would have completely eliminated virtually every other society. Deceased reanimation plagues. Meteor impacts. Thermonuclear war. Global conflicts. Digital Sentience rebellions and wars. Colony wars within their own stellar system. Temporal warfare. Dimensional invasion. Reality matrix collapses.
Modeling these on all known species have resulted in a complete and catastrophic wipe out of every other life form exposed to just one of these.
The Terrans came out the other side, bloodied and unbowed, a snarl on their lips and a rock held in their hand.
Even superluminal travel did not change their fortunes.
An attack by a Precursor Autonomous War Machine. The Friend Plague. The Andromeda Strain. Xenomorph attacks. The Devestators.
They survived it all. Everything that had destroyed virtually every other species that suffered even one of these events.
Ask me now why my projections show that they will return. Maybe not soon for us, but at least for them.
And when they do, they will be heavily armed and ready to fight. Bo'okdu'ust, Lanaktallan Socio-Mathmatician, Post-TXE
For the Lanaktallan mindset and methods of government, forty-thousand years was hardly anything. They had automation that could easily handle such an amount of time, completely unsupervised, losing only an infinitesimal amount of accuracy and execution.
The forty thousand years had been full of upheavals, without a doubt. The Best Girl Wars --AKUMA IS BEST GIRL!-- and the Weeb Wars --I HAVE THE DRAGONBALLS AND THE HIGH GROUND MA'ANIKA'AN!-- were nothing more than historical footnotes in the steady march through time and history that the Lanaktallan people were capable of.
It was more than their long lifespan, with longevity therapies, most Lanaktallan could easily survive till their 2,000th birthday --UNLESS IMMA GONNA GETCHA SUCKER-- and some even as far as 2,500 years. It was their society, their mindset, and their willingness to put aside a sense of self to contribute to the health of the Great Herd.
The Lanaktallan of the Harmonous Empire took it as a simple fact that the vaunted white armored Terrans had, one at a time, entered cryostasis as they had aged, due to infertility and inability to be cloned any further. That the red armored Praetorian Guard had been incased in stasis fields at their appointed guard posts.
That Darth Harmonous himself was entombed within a stasis field was just something that the Lanaktallan expected. Of course such a powerful personage would enter stasis at a predetermined time of his choosing. Of course the temple housing his preserved body, encased in his jet black combat armor, would be full of bright flowers, the smell of vegetation, and the buzzing of bees.
Lanaktallan had no problem keeping the traditions surrounding the founding of the Harmonous Empire. They followed the holidays and their rituals for tens of thousands of years with a dedication usually not seen outside of zealots of a recent upheaval.
The Lanaktallan were not worried about upgrading the technology of the Harmonous Empire beyond standard Confederate Planetary Defense Force standards. They largely kept the ship designs, following the thematic appearance even in new designs.
A Lanaktallan from the Great Terran Die Off would have been perfectly comfortable in the familiar society of the Harmonous Empire 40,000 years later.
It was the Lanaktallan's greatest strength and their greatest weakness.
Sergeant Shre'edrmo'o had joined the Harmonous Army over three decades prior. He had fought on airless moons against pirates, he had qualified for the vaunted Moo-Course and become Special Forces, and had even earned his PX Ranger card by providing Matron Security during Black Rain Friday. He was comfortable in cloth uniform, plated armor, even basic power armor. He could drive and operate fighting positions in every vehicle in the Empire's armory, even the ancient ones from history.
He had even been part of the Liberation Day Parade more than once, one time even driving an ACK-ACK mobile assault fortress as the citizens cheered and wept with joy.
Now he guarded the Tomb of Rememberance, where the Beloved Sister and Beloved Children were interred, where Preatorian Guards stood within stasis fields and silently guarded their virtue and honor.
He stood to one side of the Tomb of the Dark Lord, his dress uniform of black and silver immaculate, his loaded rifle held in three hands while his sword hand held his chrome bladed Cutting Bar Mark-2. He stared straight forward, ignoring questions, statements, and everything but any assault upon his person or any attempt to cross the ropes or otherwise disturb the Tomb of the Dark Lord. Behind him were five experienced and faithful Honored Guard, arranged in two rows (one of two, the row of three in the back) behind him. The back row wore power armor and carried heavy weapons that had slowly steaming ammo forges and the warning lights of live weaponry. The one behind him wore hard armor and carried live weapons.
On his right, across the Tomb of the Dark Lord, was another Honored Guard.
They looked identical, as was proper.
Entombed in hypnocite was the Dread Lanaktallan, whose name had been buried by history, who had been forced to kneel before the Dark Lord. He was behind the Tomb of the Dark Lord, frozen forever in hibernation by methods strange and arcane. The Lanaktallan was frozen, rearing, screaming in rage and fury, one hand outstreched in an attempt to grab any who came near.
The Honored Guard were there to protect the populace just as much as they were to protect these precious heritage relics.
Shre'edrmo'o heard a small 'crack' sound. Not loud, but audible over the hushed conversations taking place in the Tomb of Rememberance. His ears perked up and he glanced around. It had sounded like glass cracking. He reflexively looked at the stained glass representations of the Beloved Sister and the Beloved Children.
They were intact.

Again, glass cracking under stress.
This time he looked around. Protocol allowed such an action. He activated his augmented vision as his cyberoptics swept over the quiet and respectful crowd. The ceiling was intact. The windows intact.
He realized he could smell ozone and taste...
...blackberries?
He looked around, changing his hold on his rifle from parade ground to high ready, bringing it up to his shoulder even as he triggered an alert over his datalink.
"The Tomb of Rememberence is closing for maintenance and cleaning. Thank you for your cooperation" a Matron's voice calmly stated.
The gathered pilgrims turned and moved toward the door, some murmurs of disappointment floating through the air.
Shre'edrmo'o ignored it, looking around. He motioned to his men to take up positions to protect the Tombs, tapped an alarm for the quick reaction forces hidden in the back rooms.
More 'krik' and the taste of blackberries increased. It suddenly felt like a mailed fist was squeezing the top of his head.
The phasic suppressor hidden in his dress hat kicked in with a high pitched whine. He could taste blackberries and it felt like his back chewing teeth were covered in electric glitter. His retinal link showed that the suppressor was at 84% load.
"We're under phasic attack," Shre'edrmo'o snapped. He reached out to put the facility on lockdown.
Stasis glass shattered behind him.
He whirled in time to see a black fist above the broken stasis glass. The armor was intact and gleaming, as if it had just been polished. The fist withdrew and then punched out of the glass again.
The entire surface of the stasis glass shattered away.
Time seemed to slow down to Shre'edrmo'o as the figure imprisoned behind the glass sat up, a smooth movement from the waist that seemed to involve no other muscles.
The burial cloth of fine black silk fell from the armored visage.
The eyes of the armored mask burned red.
Wheezing breathing was loud in the silence of the Tomb of Rememberance.
One hand grabbed the edge of the glass, shattering it, and the figure swung its legs out before standing up. The night black cape fell down the back, almost touching the floor, billowing behind the figure as it moved around the shattered stasis crypt to stand at the base.
Shre'edrmo'o could only stare in shock as Darth Harmonous extended his right hand. The chrome cylinder flew into his hand.
The plasma blade ignited with a swoosh and Shre'edrmo'o just stared.
"What dog meat has awoken me from my endless dreamless slumber?" Darth Harmonous's voice was a bass rumble.
There was silence for a moment.
The world suddenly went still.
The lights dimmed.
LET THE UNIVERSE SHAKE IN THE WRATH OF TERRASOL
The roar was all consuming, shaking the foundations of reality itself.
Darth Harmonous raised his face slightly, as if he was looking at the stars in the sky.
"As you command, mother," the Dark Lord rumbled.
Shre'edrmo'o went down on one knee, bowing his head as the Dark Lord swept by. He paused at each of the kneeling Lanaktallan to touch the tops of their heads gently.
"You have kept the faith, loyal ones," he wheezed in his deep voice. "And I shall hold the compact and promises I have made and protect my people."
Shre'edrmo'o was unashamed to later admit he wept.
It burned like bitter battery acid flavored ice cream in his mouth to have had to retreat again. To have followed the Grand Admiral's orders to abandon yet another stellar system to the Mar-gite.
But Captain N'Skrek knew his duty, no matter how bitter the flavor of the ice cream.
The Grey Lady was in hyperpace, its massive engines making the entire vessel thrum with power. Its hyperspace sensors could detect the rest of the fleet, all four task forces, each dozens of ships, all of them heading for the next line in the sand.
The Mar-gite had overrun nearly five hundred light years since they had crossed The Mar-gite Bridge. They had forced Space Force to retreat again and again. To hastily evacuate what material and people they could.
The last time, Captian N'Skrek had been forced to choose resources and material over people.
The vast creation engines on the Grey Lady were, like almost all vessels, dark and cold. They had been for thousands of years. The massive ones on the planets were Creation Engine Mark-Six models, they still worked, able to put out basic materials for manufacturing facilities to process into materials.
The Grey Lady had massive manufacturing bays inside its colossal hull. Fabrication bays that could turn out everything from small microbolts to complete aerospace strikers and tanks.
The problem was, he didn't have enough people to run them and nobody was trained on the esoteric systems within those fabrication and manufacturing bays.
His ship was the largest in the Fleet.
It was also the least full for its Table of Organization & Equipment.
Less than 25% of the battle stations had anyone at them. Three quarters of those were civilians who had completed the bare-bones tutorials on the offensive and defensive systems. The majority of the systems were either on automatic, using brain dead low-end virtual intelligences rather than digital sentiences, or they were unmanned completely.
Engineering and drive shifts were at only 33%. His bridge crew was at 12%.
Even with a Telkan Marine Division, a Confederate Marine Division, and a Confederate Army Division his ground assault levels were at only 16%. The ship was capable of housing an entire Army Group and a Marine Expeditionary Group.
He had three divisions, all of them at barely 70% manpower.
The corridors were often dark and silent. The crew kept to main passages and the enlisted of the Marines and Army, as well as some of the Space Force and Navy enlisted, all reported that they had seen ghostly forms of Terrans in old armor moving through the dark passages and corridors away from the main corridors.
Inspections had always found nothing, although more than once a security team had gotten lost for hours or even days.
But still it was reported. More than a few times with video evidence.
Even so, the Grey Lady fought on.He had everything a commander could want, the armories loaded with power armor, robot combat armor, warmeks, rawrmeks, and a half dozen Pacific Rim class Jaegermeks. He had massive foundries, refit bays, training and living areas, three hospitals.
He also had barely ten thousand Space Force personnel, all of them doing five or six jobs each, stretched painfully thin.
He wasn't the only one. Even the light corvettes and frigates were barely at 60% of crew, at best. The super-dreadnoughts that his ship dwarfed were only at 40%.
And the Mar-gite kept pushing them back after inflicting casualties.
Ships came in to replace the destroyed vessels almost as fast as the Fleet arrived at their next line in the sand.
Always too little.
The Mar-gite were endless. Scouts left behind sent message torpedoes laden with the same message.
Mar-gite clusters in the Petra-Cluster range still making translation into Galactic Spur
In other times, Captain N'Skrek might have felt despair.
But other times had not heard the roar of rage emanate from TerraSol as it had reemerged into a malevolent and hateful universe. Other times he would not have seen and heard the words of the legendary Captain Decken.
So, despite the bitter taste, he kept his chin up, his bladearms sharp, and carried on.
Which was why he was stepping out of the corridor and into the briefing room.
The roar had been heard only four hours before they had been forced to retreat from a planet, but all of the Marines had been recovered as well as their objectives.
The massive creation engines of the fabled Akknerver-Nakkad Shipyards.
His XO, Commodore Johnathon Argus Steeljaw Gunchester sat at the table, next to Chief of Communications Shelkrwark, Chief of Engineering Mo'obri'yan and Chief Medical Officer Shruk'mar.
"Any luck on the Digital Sentience front?" N'Skrek asked even before he sat down.
His XO shook his head. "No. The salted caramel rainbow hash table is completely depleted. Any remaining code strings have unraveled due to age."
N'Skrek nodded. It had been expected, but while there was life, there was hope.
"I have news," Chief Mo'obri'yan stated.
"Go ahead, Chief," N'Skrek said.
"I know how old the ship is, though we don't know what its name was, and where it was manufactured. It might give us a clue as how we can handle everything, or it might just cause consternation," the Chief said.
N'Skrek waited.
The Chief activated the holo-emitter and it sprang to life.
"The Grey Lady is almost as old as the enlisted joke about her," the Chief said. He looked N'Skrek in the eyes. "It was built on Mars."
N'Skrek blinked his protective eye covers.
"Mars?" the XO asked.
"Mars," the Chief said. "THE Mars. The Wrath Forges of Mars. It was commissioned just prior to the Second Precursor War and was deployed to the Lanaktallan front during the war against the Precursor Autonomous War Machines, before even the arrival of the Atrekna. It was lost during the Terran Xenocide Event and found about twenty-thousand years ago. It underwent minor refit, exorcisms, and was put into service with a Planetary Defense Force out near the Mar-gite Isolation Zone. From there, it fell into our hands when the Mar-gite overran the system."
N'Skrek lit a cigarette with a shaking hand.
That explained some of the enlisted whispering about ghosts in the corridors.
"Do we at least have a full schematic of the ship?" N'Skrek asked.
Chief Mo'obri'yan shook his long head. "No. Anything with that kind of security requires a DS to decrypt and we don't have one."
N'Srek sighed even as he took a long drag off of his cigarette.
"That brings up to my point," Chief of Communications Shelkrwark said, rubbing her biceps in the telltale Rigellian habit that appeared during high stress.
"Go ahead," N'Skrek said, still trying to wrap his head around the fact that the ship was from Mars of all places.
Of course it doesn't bother Mo'obri'yan, his people would consider this ship fairly new and untested and probably would call it a prototype, N'Skrek thought to himself. After all, the reactor mass hadn't hardened into solid rock or been consumed by entropy yet.
"Starting two hours after the Terran Emergence Signal," she said.
"That's a bland name for a scream of rage that knocked everyone in the universe on their ass," N'Skrek snickered.
That got chuckles.
"Anyway, starting two hours after that, we started getting a signal that went directly to the primary computer core. Which, I might add, still is ignoring us like we don't exist," she said. A glance at Chief Mo'obri'yan made the Lanaktallan just shrug and mouth "Mars" back. "The higher we moved into the hyperspace bands, the faster the data stream. We can't stop it, we don't know where it's coming from and we don't know how we're receiving it."
She reached out and took a sip of water from the caraf in front of her. "Data streams are going to the engineering, electronic warfare, digital sentience sustainment, and the medical primary computer cores. All of which have been ignoring us like we don't exist since we fired the old broad up," She shrugged.
"Starting thirty minutes ago, the primary computer core went from a 2.8% data and processing load to over 80%," Shelkrwark said. She shook her head. "We don't know why. We don't know what it's doing. We do know one thing."
With that she pointed at Chief Medical Officer Shruk'mar, who took a deep breath and tapped the table.
"This ship, like a lot of the older ones, have heavy duty clone banks that largely ignore everything you try. The majority of the time, those clone banks are pulled and replaced with other material in the limited space a ship has," he said.
N'Skrek just nodded.
"Ten minutes ago, those cloning banks all went online and started receiving a massive amount of data from the primary computer core and the primary medical computer core as well as unidentified systems that we can't figure out," he said. He tapped his datapad. "I was just alerted, two minutes ago, that the cloning banks are running a maintenance cleaning cycle."
Chief Engineer Mo'obri'yan looked at his datapad and then back up, blinking all six eyes rapidly for a moment.
"Not to interrupt, but my Chief of Fabrication just hit me with a priority flash," he said.
"What?" N'Skrek asked.
"The fabrication and manufacturing systems all just went live," he checked his datapad again. "And the creation engines just began drawing massive amounts of power."
"Which ones?" N'Skrek asked.
"The ones originally installed on the ship," the Chief Engineer said.
"Sir," the Chief Medical Officer said, looking up from his datapad.
"Yes?" N'Skrek calmly lit a cigarette even though, in his mind, he was running in circles screaming.
"The cloning banks just went to print mode."
I live. I die. I live again.
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